Kevin Jared Hosein

KEVIN JARED HOSEIN is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018. His previous novels include The Repenters, which was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and The Beast of Kukuyo, which received a Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature. Both were also longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. He has been published in numerous anthologies and outlets, including Esquire, Wasafiri, Lightspeed, Granta, BBC Radio 4, and Perspective. He lives in Trinidad and Tobago.