 Cynthia
Wilson was born in St. Philip,
Barbados in 1934. She graduated from the University College of
the West Indies, Jamaica, with a B.A. in history, Latin and English
in 1957, followed with a Diploma in Education in 1958. Wilson
worked as a high school English teacher in Jamaica and Morocco,
before returning home in 1969, and serving in Barbados' Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and at the Caribbean Tourism Research Centre.
She was instrumental in establishing the National Independence
Festival of creative Arts (NIFCA) in 1973, and for nearly thirty
years has been representing her country and the cultural arts
on national, regional and international boards, committees and
fora in dance, theater and tourism. The president of Stage One
Theatre Productions (1980-1982), manager of the Barbados Dance
Theatre Company (1985-1988) and administrative director of WWB
Productions (1986-1996), Wilson has also served as chairperson
of the Association of Caribbean Theatre Artists (ACTA) and a director
of the CARICOM Foundation for Arts and Culture. She is a member
of numerous other cultural foundations, including the Barbados
mu-seum and historical society. Fluent in French and Spanish,
she is well-known in Barbados and other parts of the Caribbean
as an actor, storyteller, producer and dancer. As one of Barbados'
grandes dames of the cultural arts, Wilson has produced "Paint
it Jazz" for the Barbados Jazz Festival (1994-1995), as well as
the official presentations for royal visits and visiting dignitaries
and heads of state (1975-1990), and nu-merous dance, musical and
theater productions. In 1998, this wife and mother of three founded
her nation's Stroke Support Group. The writing of poetry and stories
has been a consistent but mostly private part of Wilson's life
and professional career and "Same Sea . Another Wave" is her first
book and the fruit of a long-standing dream. Awards and honors
include the Barbados Service Star, the Bussa Award, Uni-versity
of the West Indies at Cave Hill Humanities Scholar, University
of the West Indies at Mona Distinguished Graduate Award, and the
Earl Warner Trust Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Same
Sea ... Another Wave
A collection of stories
by Cynthia Wilson
Price:
US$15
Paperback,
fiction, short stories 65 + xii pp., 5.25"x8", (2001)
ISBN: 0-913441-53-8
"In Cynthia
Wilson's Same Sea ... Another Wave Cyrilene Sargeant takes us
into her world with all the unstoppable confidence of a precocious,
deeply loved child. ... Caribbean writers do explore childhood,
of course, but there are few
who evoke so beautifully and completely credibly, a childhood
in the Caribbean in an era that we can now see as the childhood
of the modern Caribbean."
- Kendel Hippolyte, Poet, playwright,
St Lucia
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