Awards and Honors

2008            Editor, Journal of Afro-Latino Studies

2006            Consultor, Gerson Lehrman Media

2006            Award, New Media Institute, NBPC

2005            Film Fest at Caribbean Cultural Center

8/04             Judge, Women of Color Film Festival

9/99-6/00    Ira Katznelson Grant

9/98-6/99    Frank Altchul Grant

9/97-6/98    Visiting Scholarship, OAS

9/96-6/97    McArthur Foundation Grant             

9/95-6/96    Aron Diamond Foundation Grant

9/94-6/96    Dorothy Danforth Compton Grant

9/92-6/94    Patricia Harris Public Service

9/92-6/94    Inter American Foundation Grant

Quince Duncan is a Costa Rican fiction writer who has gained an international reputation, not just as an author, but also as a human rights leader. Through his novels, short stories, essays and other writings, Duncan illustrates the black African contributions to and experiences in Spanish-American culture in an uplifting and liberating light.

As a West Indian black growing up in San José, Duncan had to bear the brunt of a racially oppressive society. Despite the external social obstacles, Duncan completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature, linguistics, and Latin American Studies at the National University.

Quince Duncan's quest for racial equality in Costa Rica extends itself on a global scale as a message of tolerance, acceptance and appreciation of all of humanity's diversity.

Duncan was awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree from St. Olaf College in September of 2001.

Gwen Barnes-Karol, Department Chair

St. Olaf College

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September 2001