Erna Brodber

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Erna Brodber (b. 1940) is a Jamaican writer and sociologist, born in Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. She won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989 for her novel Myal. Brodber currently works as a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Jamaica.

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Novels

• Louisiana (New Beacon Books, 1994)
• Myal (New Beacon Books, 1988)
• Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (New Beacon Books, 1980)

Scholarship

• Abandonment of Children in Jamaica (1974)
• A Study of Yards in the City of Kingston (1975)
• Perceptions of Caribbean Women (1982)
• The Continent of Black Consciousness: on the history of the African diaspora from slavery to the present (2003)