The novel Miss Allen knead
AS TOLD TO BC PIRES
My name is Lisa Allen-Agostini and my novel The Bread the Devil Knead was published last week.
I come from straight outta Morvant, no crossover. I lived in my mother s house overlooking the traffic lights at Morvant Junction from age two until my mid-20s.
I live now in Backayard, a village in the rainforest high up Simeon Road, Petit Valley. We live downstairs my husband Brian McMeo s parents house.
My mom, Dolsie, was a widow with seven children.
My father had two before he had my brother Dennis and me with Dolsie. It wasn t the Brady Bunch, though.
Lisa Allen-Agostini explores culture, womanhood in new novel
Tuesday 23 February 2021
Lisa Allen- Agostini s debut adult novel, The Bread the Devil Knead, explores feminity, sexuality, survival and TT s culture. - Courtesy Paula Obé Photography
HAVING published books including the 2017 Burt Prize for Young Adult Caribbean Literature, third prize for her coming-of-age novel Home Home, Lisa Allen-Agostini will see her latest novel published in May.
Allen-Agostini worked as a journalist for over 20 years at both the Trinidad Express and Guardian.
In 2019 she partnered with Louris Martin Lee-Sing to create the Caribbean feminist stand-up comedy duo FemComTT, and also co-hosts the online chat show, The Givin Trouble Show.
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud, Trinidad-born writer living in London, whose debut novel Love After Love published in 2020 by Faber in the UK is shortlisted for the hugely prestigious Costa First Novel Award. Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was an academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect, The Guardian, The Independent, National Geographic, Five Dials and Pree magazines. Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love shortlisted for the Costa Prize for a Debut writer as it represents a breakthrough in the Caribbean novel while exploring universal themes of domestic violence, sexuality, and self-harm. This nomination comes at a time that appears to be a renaissance for women writers in the Caribbean, and particularly Trinidad.