Ingrid Persaud
Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was a legal academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Persaud lives in London and Barbados.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
Solo
Ingrid Persaud
‘I wanted her to see me as a real man, with a little swagger, cool as this fall evening.’
An excerpt from Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best book of 1936: Locos
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud on why Felipe Alfau’s Locos is the best book of 1936.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Sweet Sop
Ingrid Persaud
‘The memory of chocolate made the man crazy to see me. I became Reggie’s dealer. A voice on the phone would whisper, ‘Two Kit Kat’ and hang up.’
