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A Conversation with Zee Edgell

Zee Edgell
February 20, 2018
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Knowlton Hall Main Space

Belize’s most celebrated writer, Zelma “Zee” Edgell, will take part in a presentation and discussion with Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Dr. Kareem Usher at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, February 20 at the Knowlton Hall Big Stairs. The event will begin with a short presentation by Professor Edgell about her life as a writer and will be followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Usher.

Professor Edgell is a novelist and short story writer. She was born and grew up in Belize City, Belize. Her first novel, Beka Lamb (Hodder) was awarded the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1982. Edgell’s third short story, “My Uncle Theophilus,” won the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short fiction and was published in The Caribbean Writer in 1999. Her three other novels are In Times Like These (Heinemann 1991), The Festival of San Joaquin (MacMillan 1997) and Time and The River (2007, Hodder).