Jean Buffong

Jean Buffong was born in 1943 in Grenada and settled in the United Kingdom, where she worked in law before starting to write, after the age of forty. A social worker with the West Indian Standing Conference, she chaired the Ananse Society and belongs to the alliance of Caribbean women writers. Her poems, short stories, novels and plays return to her Grenadian childhood. In 1990 she published two stories from Grenada with Nellie Payne, then two novels in London, and edited anthologies. She lives between London and Gambia.

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• NovelUnder the Silk Cotton TreeJean Buffong · 1992Literature