Category: Jamaica
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2024 longlists announced
The longlists for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2024 were announced on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet, executed as a series of readings of classic and contemporary stories, workshops,…
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The Book Fairy Festival for Jamaica
The Book Fairy Festival will be hosted in Kingston, Jamaica from July 25 – 28, 2024. The Book Fairy Festival was founded and curated by Shanique Sinclair (also known as Shanz The Book Fairy), an advocate for literature, education, and the transformative power of books. The festival will include author signings, panels, a children’s…
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Book Digest: Ishi Robinson, João Melo, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Iris Mwanza
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Ishi Robinson, João Melo, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Iris Mwanza. Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson Publisher: HarperDate: April 23, 2024Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Harper Ishi Robinson Ishi Robinson is a Jamaican writer living in…
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Safiya Sinclair wins OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024
Safiya Sinclair was declared the winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Arif Ali was also awarded the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award 2024. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, worth US$10,000, is an annual award for literary books by…
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Ishion Hutchinson on Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist
Ishion Hutchinson’s poetry collection School of Instructions is in the shortlist for Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 announced on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s largest international prize for a first edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English. The Canada-based prize was founded by businessman and…
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Kwame Dawes is Jamaica’s new Poet Laureate
Kwame Dawes was declared the Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2024 – 2027 in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. The Poet Laureate of Jamaica programme is directed by the National Library of Jamaica in partnership with the Ministry of Culture Gender Entertainment and Sportand King’s House. The laureate’s job is to present public…
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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 shortlists announced.
Safiya Sinclair, Nicole Sealey, and Kevin Jared Hosein are the shortlisted writers of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 announced in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, April 7, 2024. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, worth US$10,000, is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed…
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Tiya Miles, Safiya Sinclair on UK’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 shortlist
Tiya Miles and Safiya Sinclair are on the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 announced on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Women’s Prize founded in 1996 is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United Kingdom. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original…
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Safiya Sinclair, Jonny Steinberg win at US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023
Safiya Sinclair and Jonny Steinberg won at the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 in New York, USA on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The National Book Critics Circle celebrates the best books published in the past year in the United States since 1974. Finalists are nominated, evaluated, and selected by the 24-member board of directors…
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Ishion Hutchinson, Fred Moten on Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 longlist
Ishion Hutchinson and Fred Moten are on the longlist for Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize 2024 announced on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The Griffin Poetry Prize is the world’s largest international prize for a first-edition single collection of poetry written in or translated into English. The Canada-based prize was founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin…
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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 longlists announced.
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 longlists were announced in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, March 10, 2024. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, worth US$10,000, is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed out in 2011. Books are judged in three…
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Book Digest: Namina Forna, Christina Cooke, Mazi Nwonwu, Achille Mbembe
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Namina Forna, Christina Cooke, Mazi Nwonwu, and Achille Mbembe. The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna Publisher: Delacorte PressDate: February 13, 2024Genre: Fiction, Young AdultLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House Namina Forna Namina Forna is the New…
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Tiya Miles, Safiya Sinclair on UK’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 longlist
Tiya Miles and Safiya Sinclair are on the longlist for the UK’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 announced on Thursday, February 15, 2024. The Women’s Prize founded in 1996 is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the United Kingdom. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best…
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LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 fellows announced
The fellows of the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024 were announced in Accra, Ghana on Monday, January 29, 2024. The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) is a private library, archive, writing residency, and museum dedicated to the work of African and Diaspora writers from the late 19th century to the present day.…
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Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023 has been announced today, Monday, November 27, 2023. Prix Littéraire Les Afriques is awarded annually to an African or writer of African descent who has written fiction highlighting a human, societal, ideological, political, cultural, economic, or historical issue related to Africa or its diaspora. Prix Les Afriques,…