'Black Rock' by Amanda Smyth nominated for NAACP Image award

Novelist Amanda Smyth. Photo by Lee Thomas.

Her first novel, Black Rock, was this month nominated for an NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction by a debut author. Trinidadian/Irish novelist Amanda Smyth will vie for the honour alongside the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Marlon James (who are also nominated in the literature categories) not to mention dozens nominated in other categories like Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Sandra Bullock.

As she celebrated, Smyth took a moment to tell PLEASURE about the writing life, her highly anticipated second book, her past career as an actress and the toll of being split between Trinidad and the UK. Her interview is the tenth in a series of interviews on this blog featuring Trinidad artists.

FIND the full interview here. READ an extract from Black Rock here.