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Elizabeth Nunez


Born
in Cocorite, Trinidad and Tobago
February 18, 1944

Died
November 11, 2024

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Elizabeth Nunez was a Trinidadian-American novelist academic who was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, New York City.
Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received The New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review, Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award, and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion; Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Image Award; and Anna In-Between was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence as well as a New York Time ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 2,094 ratings · 385 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Prospero's Daughter
3.76 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
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Even in Paradise
3.62 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions
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Anna In-Between
3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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Bruised Hibiscus
3.80 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir
3.55 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Boundaries
3.53 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Grace
3.28 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions
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Discretion
3.99 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions
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Beyond The Limbo Silence
3.68 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Now Lila Knows
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“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim - Nature abhors a vacuum. Fill their minds with your stories and they will adore you; leave their minds free to roam and they will hatch plans to destroy you" (181).”
― Elizabeth Nunez, Boundaries
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“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).”
― Elizabeth Nunez, Boundaries
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“Racism is a poison so insidious it finds its way through the tiniest slit in the soul and does its damage there even before one is aware.”
― Elizabeth Nunez, Anna In-Between
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