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Patricia G. Turnbull (born 1952) is a poet from Saint Lucia. In 1991, she was awarded the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry.

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Patricia Turnbull was born in Saint Lucia. She gained a BA at the University of the West Indies in 1974, and an MSc in English education from Syracuse University in 1986. She has worked as a business communication consultant, a Saint Lucian Creole translator and speech coach, and an English teacher and department chair. [1]

Turnbull won the Cedars Prize for Contemporary Poetry in 1991. [1]

Man-made destruction of hillside plants – even before St Lucia was threatened by Hurricane Maria in 2017 – moved Turnbull to write a children's book, Ti Koko and Kush Kush (2018), about an unlikely friendship in a Caribbean garden. At the book's launch, Turnbull called for more community support for literary artists. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Heather Smyth (2002). "Turnbull, Patricia". In Jane Eldridge Miller (ed.). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. p. 326. ISBN   978-0-415-15981-4.
  2. 'I think we are the most ignored' - Local author Dr Patricia G. Turnbull, Virgin Island News Online', 20 February 2018. Accessed 6 July 2020.