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Vladimir Lucien (born 16 March 1988), ARC Magazine. is a writer, critic and actor from St. Lucia. His first collection of poetry, Sounding Ground (2014), won the Caribbean region's major literary prize for anglophone literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, in 2015, making Lucien the youngest ever winner of the prize.
Lucien has since had a great deal of success, with his work being published in journals and other publications, including Small Axe, Wasafiri, BIM magazine, The Caribbean Review of Books, Caribbean Beat, Washington Square Review, and the anthology Beyond Sangre Grande, edited by Cyril Dabydeen. Some of Lucien's poetry has been translated into other languages, appearing in Dutch in the literary magazine Tortuca, in Italian in the journal El Ghibli, Vladimir Lucien page at El Ghibli. and in Mandarin. "Vladimir Lucien Poet. Biography", Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Literature (CITL), 2018.
Awards he has received awards include first prize in the poetry category of the Small Axe Prize 2013, and the overall OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2015 for his 2014 debut collection of poems, Sounding Ground,Andre Bagoo, "‘Poetry is a matter of bravery’ – For Vladimir Lucien, 27, poetry is not for the faint-hearted", Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 7 May 2015. which was also shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2015.
He was the screenwriter of the documentary The Merikins, which had its premiere at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2013.
He has participated in various international literary events, including at the Miami Book Fair, the Read My World Festival in Amsterdam, the Jaipur Literary Festival, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Calabash International Literary Festival, and in 2016 was Writer-in-Residence at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica).
In the Journal of West Indian Literature, Laurence Breiner wrote: "A distinctive and recognizable voice runs through all of Lucien’s poems, but his tonal variety is both wide and protean. There is a seriousness in his work—even in his wit—which has to do with his respect for the heft of a people’s lived life, and not with any darkness of vision, or moodiness, or angst. His poems have the kind of life-energy to be found in any fresh shovelful of soil. This is poetry of the ground, of the yard and the schoolyard and the provision ground. Lucien digs deep, plants deep, and draws upon depths of resource. In nearly every one of these poems we sense power in reserve, presences that can be felt."
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