Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin, born in 1986, is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. The novel had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018. His previous novels include The Repenters, which was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Trinidad & Tobago
Set in 1940s Trinidad, a disappearance on a colonial estate sparks a collision between a poor family and the wealthy elite. As tensions rise, the novel unravels buried secrets and the lingering haunt of injustice and desire.