Tessa McWatt

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Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer.

She is the author of novels, stories, essays and libretto, along with There’s No Place Like… a novella for young adults. Her second novel, Dragons Cry, was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General Awards of Canada. Her other novels include Out of My Skin (Cormorant Books), This Body (HarperCollins 2004 and Macmillan Caribbean 2005), Step Closer (HarperCollins 2009), Vital Signs (Random House Canada 2011 and William Heinemann 2012), which was nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and Higher Ed (Random House Canada and Scribe UK, 2015).

McWatt is providing the libretto for Hannah Kendall's opera The Knife of Dawn, based on the incarceration of political activist Martin Carter in the then British Guiana in 1953.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Hannah Kendall". Funding New Music. PRS for Music Foundation. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Knife of Dawn". Hannah Kendall homepage. Retrieved 1 April 2015.

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