Karen Lord
Barbados
Karen Lord has been a physics teacher, a diplomat, a part-time soldier and an academic at various times and in various countries. She is now a writer and research consultant in Barbados. Her debut novel, Redemption in Indigo, inspired by a Senegalese folktale, is an elegant meditation on the idea of fate. The novel won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Award, and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Her latest novel The Best of all Possible Worlds is due for release in early 2013. She lives in Barbados.
Don’t miss seeing Karen Lord at Adelaide Writers’ Week:
REDEMPTION IN INDIGO: KAREN LORD
Sunday, March 3
3:45pm - 4:45pm
ALL STORIES ARE LOVE STORIES: KAREN LORD, EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL, CHARLOTTE WOOD
Monday, March 4
10:45am - 11:45pm
LAURA KROETSCH INTRODUCES KAREN LORD
Karen Lord
Redemption in Indigo
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