Opal Palmer Adisa

**Opal Palmer Adisa** (doɣim dabisili  6 November 1954) nyela nira ŋun niŋdi yeltoɣ'taɣimalisi, ŋun sabiri kundunima   ka yi Jamaica ni America na. O nyela ŋun kuli gindi duniya yaanga zuɣu boba ni yaɣa n niŋdi yeltoɣtaɣimalisi ka mali o tuma n wuhiri salo.  o nyela Professor Emeritus, California College of the Arts, Adisa n lahi nye Kpema zaŋti Institute for Gender and Development Studies din be  University of the West Indies, Mona Campus din be Jamaica la, luɣi sheli o ni kuli be pumpoŋo.

## Tuuli Biɛhagu
Adisa daa nyela bini wumisi so Jamaica, ka o ni daa chaŋ shikuru sheli daa nye din be Jamaica tinzuɣu ni, di ni mi sheli Kingston la. Yuuni 1970 o daa chaŋ nti bo baŋsim Hunter College, New York, ka daa tuɣi chaŋ San Fransisco Bay Area nti tuɣi baŋsim yaɣili din jendi sabbu yuuni 1979, ni ka o daa deegi o MA in creative writing shahira gbaŋ. David Katz daa yeliya "ni yela din daa niŋ Adisa bilim ni ni niriba ban daa gilo nyela din niŋ daliri ka o ti piigi tuun sheli o ni tumdi maa, o ni daa yisiri na , o ba daa nyela chemist ka o ma nye ŋun guli kundunima. Lala ŋo ni ka o daa milisi salima salimbu , yaha di ni daa niŋ ka o laamba che taba, nti pahi nahingu ni daa kuli be paɣaba zuɣu ni faranima ŋo zaa daa pahi lebigi o ka o ti piigi lala soli maa bee tuma maa nti o maŋa. O ma daa lahi nyela ŋun kuli mori ni o lebigi biehigu nti ninvuɣu sheba ban miriba, di gba daa che ka Adisa ti yisina n bori ni o duhi o kukoli nti ninvuɣ'sheba ban be nahingu ni."

## Tuma ni sabbu
Opal Palmer Adisa nyela ŋun mali master's degree shahira gbana ayi  ka di yina San Fransisco State University ni Phd din yina University of California, Berkeley. O nyela ŋun na mini wuhi baŋsim   California College of the Arts, Stanford University, University of Berkeley, ni San Francisco State University. Yuuni 1993 hali ni 2017, Adisa daa nyela ŋun wuhi karimbihi sabbu, ka daa nye kuɣu lana zaŋti Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program,  California College of Arts and Crafts din be Oakland. silimin goli September yuuni 2017; o daa nyela bini piigi so ni o leegi kpema zaŋti Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies din be Mona, Jamaica, luɣi sheli o ni pa be pumpoŋo.  Yuuni 2018, Adisa daa nyela bini duhi so n chaŋ Professor Emeritus zaasheei, ka daliri nyemi o yuun pishinaanu kpaŋmaŋa zaŋti California College of Arts, o yaɣili maa.

## Artists residencies

* Writer-in-Residence, Binational Fulbright Institute, Cairo, Egypt, December–February yuuni 2007
* Writer-in-Residence, Sacatar Institute, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil, Silimiingoli December ni hali ni silimiingoli March ni, yuuni 2006
* Writer-in-Residence, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Laurel Hill, NC, silimiingoli March ni, yuuni 2001
* Writer-in-Residence, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, September–December 2000
* Writer-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, February–December 1996.

## Jaashehi ni kpaŋmaŋ pina

* Council for a performance of "Daughters of Yam", with Devorah Major
* Pushcart Prize (kpaŋmaŋ pini)  zaŋti o lahabali ŋmaa sheli o ni daa boli  "Duppy Get Her", yuuni 1987
* PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award zaŋti o *Tamarind and Mango Women*, tuma la yuuni 1992
* Writer in Residence for Wadastick Artists & Scholar ,Laurel Hill, North Carolina
* Writer in Residence zaŋti  McColl Center for Visual Art din be  Charlotte, NC
* Lahabli sabira ŋun gaham  kpaŋmaŋ pini  zaŋti  Middle Atlantic Writers Association

## Bibliography

### Kundinima ni lahibali jihi kpanjori

* *Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories* (yuuni 1986), lahabali jihi
* *It Begins With Tears* (yuuni 1997), kundu
* *Until Judgement Comes* (yuuni 2007), lahabali jihi
* *Painting Away Regrets* (yuuni 2011), lahabli kundu

### Yeltoɣ'taɣimalisi

* *Traveling Women* (yuuni 1989, with Devorah Major)
* *Fierce Love* (yuuni 1992, including jazz recording with Devorah Major)
* *Tamarind and Mango Women* (yuuni 1992)
* *Leaf-of-Life* (yuuni 2000)
* *The Tongue Is a Drum* (yuuni 2002, including jazz CD with Devorah Major)
* *Caribbean Passion* (yuuni 2004)
* *Eros Muse* (yuuni 2006)
* *I Name Me Name* (yuuni 2008)
* *Conscious Living* (yuuni 2009)
* *Amour Verdinia* (yuuni 2009)
* *What a Woman Is* (yuuni 2010, including paintings by Shyam Kamel)
* *Incantations & Rites* (yuuni 2013, with Devorah Major)
* *4-Headed Woman* (yuuni 2013)

### Bibihi Kundinima

* *Pina, The Many-Eyed Fruit* (yuuni 1985)
* *Playing Is Our Work* (yuuni 2008)
* *Look! A Moko Jumbie* (yuuni 2016)

### Onivihi kundi sheŋa poi ka di naa yi zaŋ wuhi salo

* *Interviewing the Caribbean: “Caribbean Life + Olympian Feats, Volume 3 part 2”* (pohim zuɣu lahabli kpanoɣu), Spring yuuni 2018
* *Interviewing the Caribbean: “Caribbean Life + Olympian Feats, Volume 3 part 1”* (pohim zuɣu lahabli kpanoɣu), Winter yuuni 2017
* *Interviewing the Caribbean: “Violence in the Caribbean, Volume 2”* (pohim zuɣu lahabli kpanoɣu), Spring yuuni 2017
* *Interviewing the Caribbean: “Violence in the Caribbean, Volume 1”* (pohim zuɣu lahabli kpanoɣu), Fall yuuni 2016
* *Interviewing the Caribbean: “Intellectual Property”* (pohim zuɣu lahabli kpanoɣu), Fall yuuni 2015
* *ProudFlesh, Riding The Waves of Caribbean Women* (yeltoɣ'taɣimalisi ni kperigu) Issue 8, yuuni 2013
* *The Caribbean Writer: Ayiti/Haiti, Volume 25* yeltoɣ'ta`yimalisi, kperigu; bini daa lebigi sheli n labi french balli ni), yuuni 2011

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