Vanessa Spence
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Vanessa Spence (born 1961, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican novelist. Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean.[1]
She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the University of Oxford, and Yale University.[2] She works as an economist, in Kingston. She lives in the Blue Mountains.
- 1994, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean
