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Mary Walters, editor of Yet We Survive, is a Scottish teacher and a specialist in community arts projects. She first went to Dominica in 1986 to work on a children's international project for the Commonwealth Arts Festival. Yet We Survive was developed from a workshop for young Kalinago people held on the Carib Territory. Mary curated the words and pictures created in this workshop for a touring exhibition for Scotland's international photographic festival "Fotofeis". She also produced the first edition of this book. |
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Christborne Shillingford, author of Most Wanted, was born in Grand Bay, Dominica, on December 25, 1959 - hence the name. He was educated at the Dominica Grammar School and lives on his family's Carholme estate, which overlooks a lake recently created by a landslide. Shillingford calls the area "Miracle Valley". Most Wanted is his first book. |
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Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author of It Falls Into Place, was born in 1908 on the Caribbean island of Dominica, where she died in 1986. A white West Indian, from a once wealthy planter family -- like her compatriot and sometime friend Jean Rhys -- she has a particular significance in the region as a political as well as a literary figure.
As a young woman she lived for a time in the United States, moving in well-connected New York society, and later spent some years in Britain, where she joined the Fabian Society and the Socialist League. Returning to the West Indies in the 1950s, she co-founded the Dominica Labour Party and became a minister in the cabinet of the short-lived Federation of the West Indies in Trinidad. Back in Dominica, she ran a newspaper -- The Dominica Star -- and lived until her death in a tiny stone house filled with books and memories, of both the triumphs and the disappointments that characterised her personal and political life. Her acclaimed novel, The Orchid House, was first published in 1953, re-issued thirty years later by Virago and filmed for Channel 4 television in 1991.
In 2004 Papillote Press published It Falls Into Place, a delightful collection of her short stories. |
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Polly Pattullo has written widely about the Caribbean region, including Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean, a critical assessment of the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism development in the region. A co-founder of Papillote Press, she is co-author of The Gardens of Dominica and works for the Guardian newspaper in London. |
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Anne Jno Baptiste is co-owner of Dominica's Papillote Wilderness Retreat, the island's well-known eco-lodge. A marine micro paleontologist by training and a rainforest botanist by lifelong avocation, she is executive director of the non-profit Papillote Tropical Gardens, co-author of The Gardens of Dominica and a co-founder of Papillote Press. |
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