Ingrid Persaud

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Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad. Her debut novel, Love After Love, won the Costa First Novel Award 2020, Author’s Club First Novel Award 2021, Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2021. She also won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018 and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. Her second novel The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh was published by Faber in April 2024 and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Encore Award. Follow her on Twitter @IngridPersaud.