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April 22, 2004Horane Smith

"Horane Smith "

PROFILE
Horane Smith was born in 1957, at Yardley Chase in the parish
of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, home of the famous tourist
attraction Lover’s Leap
Mr. Smith commenced a career in journalism at the
government information bureau, the Agency for Public
information (now the Jamaica information Service) in 1975.
From the API, Mr. Smith moved to Jamaica’s first
community radio station, JBC Radio West, in 1979, where he
worked as a freelance producer and programme producer.
In 1980, Mr. Smith was the recipient of the Jack
Anderson Memorial Scholarship for Journalism awarded by
the Press Association of Jamaica, to study Mass
Communication at the University of the West Indies. Jack
Anderson was a veteran Jamaican journalist and the scholarship
is awarded annually to honour his commitment and dedication
to the profession.
After graduating from UWI, Mr. Smith returned to the
Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, this time at its Kingston
headquarters. He started there as a freelance writer and
moved quickly up to the rank of Senior News Producer/Reporter/
Editor and subsequently acted as Assistant Director of Television News. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Dedication to Duties Award from the JBC.
In 1988, Mr. Smith left full time duties at JBC to work as
Information Assistant at the United States Embassy in Kingston,
where he served as the main contact between the media and the
Embassy. During that time, Mr. Smith was Consulting Editor
to the JBC Newsroom.
Mr. Smith and his family left Jamaica in 1990, to take up
residence in Toronto, Canada. While in Canada, he continued
his journalism duties, corresponding for JBC-TV and writing
columns for the Jamaica Herald and Dawn newspaper in Canada.
In 1995, he returned to Jamaica on a visit and went to
the famous and legendary tourist attraction, Lover’s Leap, where
he used to play as a young boy. Three months later, his debut
novel, Lover’s Leap: Based on the Jamaican Legend was
written. The novel was published in England, in 1999, to international acclaim.
John Prebble, the late British best-selling author, well-known
for the 1960s box-office hit Zulu, starring Michael Caine,
commented: “I have read it with great admiration, for not only
is it a bitter-sweet story but a profound comment on a
contemporary subject.” Just before he died in January 2000,
Mr. Prebble was asked by friends what was one of his regrets in
life. He responded that he wouldn’t be around to see the
success of four new writers. Horane Smith was named among
them.
Mr. Smith’s second novel, Underground to Freedom,
was published in 2000, and the popular Port Royal in 2001.
The Lynching Stream, his fourth work of historical fiction,
was published in July 2003. Reggae Silver is his fifth novel..
Mr. Smith has been described by the Ottawa Citizen
newspaper, one of the largest in Canada, as “no ordinary novelist.”
He has been described by book reviewers as “prolific…going from
strength to strength…and an engaging writer.”
Mr. Smith works for a media monitoring/intelligence
firm in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and four children.
Email: horane@tht.net

Horane_smith@hotmail.com

www.reggaesilver.rulestheweb.com

www.horanesmith.com

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Tel: 801-486-8639

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