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Vanessa Spence
Vanessa
Spence
is a
Jamaican
novelist
. Her
first novel
,
The Roads
Are Down
, won the 1994
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
,
Best
First Novel
,
Canada
and the
Caribbean
.
She grew up in
Jamaica
, and
studied
at the
Oxford University
, and
Yale University
.
She works, as an
economist
, in
Kingston
.
She
lives
in the
Blue Mountains
.
Works
The
Roads
Are Down
,
Heinemann
, 1993,
Criticism
,
The
Caribbean Review of Books
,
May 2009
,
The Caribbean
Review of Books
,
July 2010