Jane Bryce was born on 1951 and is a British writer, journalist, literary and cultural critic, as well as an academic.
11 Facts About Jane Bryce
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Jane Bryce was born and raised in Tanzania, has lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, and since 1992 has been based in Barbados.
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Jane Bryce's writing for a wide range of publications has focused on contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, postcolonial cinema and creative writing, and she is Professor Emerita of African Literature and Cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.
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Jane Bryce edited the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean, and is the author of a 2007 collection of short fiction, entitled Chameleon.
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Jane Bryce was born in 1951 in Lindi, Tanzania, and grew up in Moshi.
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Jane Bryce was educated at schools in Tanzania until the age of 13, when she was sent to school in England.
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Jane Bryce taught African literature and cinema, in addition to creative writing, at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and was editor of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing for 20 years, since its founding, and a noted contributor of poetry to the journal.
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Jane Bryce founded the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film, of which she was a director from 2002 to 2007, and she was Barbados curator of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival.
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Jane Bryce has contributed over the years to a wide range of academic journals and essay collections.
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Jane Bryce compiled the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream, and is the author of the 2007 collection Chameleon and Other Stories.
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Jane Bryce has served as a judge for literary awards both locally and regionally, including the Guyana Prize for Literature and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.