# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olive-senior
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:53:18.866Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olive-senior"
name: "Olive Senior"
slug: "olive-senior"
description: "Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature. Other awards she has won include the Dana Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and International Education at St. Lawrence University (1994), the Gold Medal of the Institute of Jamaica, the Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence (2003), a Doctor of Letters at the University of the West Indies (2017), and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2016). Senior was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2021, serving in the post until 2024."
tagline: "Jamaican writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.876566666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olive_Senior"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "أوليف سينيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "اوليف سينيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Senior"
    title: "Olive Senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Senior"
    title: "Olive Senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Senior"
    title: "Olive Senior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsohon_Olive"
    title: "Tsohon Olive"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2"
    title: "Синиор, Олив"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Олів Сеніор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14020832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump