Leonora Brito

Area of Achievement

Film and Literature

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Brito is a Welsh Writer from Cardiff

1954

2007

Cardiff

Welsh

1995: Dat’s Love, Seren
2006: Chequered Histories, Seren

She studied Law and History at Cardiff University.

In 1991 she won the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize. Her first short story collection, Dat’s Love (1995), was published by Seren Books and was described by Publishers Weekly as combining ‘an unexpected setting (the Caribbean community in Wales) with some truly fresh writing’. In an article for The Guardian, Gary Younge states that ‘with the exception of Leonora Brito’s Dat’s Love, the literary voices of Blacks and Asians in Wales are rarely heard.’
Brito’s Chequered Histories (2006), another short story collection, was also published by Seren. In addition to prose, she wrote successfully for radio and television.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Brito accessed 16/04/2022

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28592740-the-selected-stories-of-leonora-brito accessed 16/04/2022
https://www.walesartsreview.org/books-dats-love-by-leonora-brito/ accessed 16/04/2022

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