Marina Salandy-Brown

Marina Salandy-Brown FRSA Hon. FRSL is a Trinidadian journalist, broadcaster and cultural activist. She is the founder and inaugural director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, an annual literary festival held in Trinidad and Tobago since 2011, and of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

She previously served as an editor and senior manager of news and current affairs programmes for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, where she was one of few executives from an ethnic minority background. She is the co-founder of the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize.

Salandy-Brown was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Westminster in 2005 and the University of the West Indies in 2013. In 2020, received the Ferdinand Magellan Award from Chile and was elected as an honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Literature. In 2022, she was awarded the Hummingbird Medal at the National Awards Ceremony in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 2025, she was honoured with the national award of Spain, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit.