https://www.amandasmyth.co.uk/old-home daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6257d0bdaed6946cdd12edcc/2f2d7b4a-d3ba-4c57-bc80-ff569498a46b/Look+At+You+%282%29.gif https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6257d0bdaed6946cdd12edcc/3e1145c6-7af0-48fe-b25d-44a517d312a5/amanda_Dora_coat.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6257d0bdaed6946cdd12edcc/67f24acd-933a-431f-afd7-15864fb24292/Amanda+Smyth+Books+%283%29.jpg https://www.amandasmyth.co.uk/biography daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6257d0bdaed6946cdd12edcc/aa66a585-7e3d-41c3-a934-8a5fa40d1343/Amanda-bw66.jpg Biography - Biography Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of four novels, Black Rock, A Kind of Eden, Fortune and Look at You, published by Peepal Tree Press in February 2025. Her first novel, Black Rock, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, was nominated for an NAACP award, short listed for McKitterick Prize, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Black Rock was chosen as one of Waterstones New Voices, and translated into several languages. Her second novel, A Kind of Eden, set in contemporary Trinidad, was published in 2013 and optioned this year (2024) as a TV series by Ringside Studios. Fortune, her third novel, was based on the tragic Dome fire in Trinidad, 1928. Fortune, was shortlisted for Walter Scott prize 2022. Look at You, her fourth novel, will be published in 2025. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New Writing, London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Review and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Amanda teaches creative writing at Arvon, Skyros, Greece, and she is a Royal Literary Fellow based at Exeter College, Oxford. 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