Category: Jamaica
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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,…
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Book Digest: Farai Mudzingwa, Safiya Sinclair, Stefanie Hirsbrunner, Tlotlo Tsamaase
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Farai Mudzingwa, Safiya Sinclair, Stefanie Hirsbrunner, and Tlotlo Tsamaase. Avenues by Train By Farai Mudzingwa Publisher: Cassava RepublicDate: September 25, 2023Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Click here. Farai Mudzingwa Farai Mudzingwa is a Zimbabwean writer whose fiction…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival awards 2023 finalists announced.
The finalists for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s literary awards were named on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet founded in 2019. It is designed to facilitate vibrant conversations about Caribbean identity…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2023 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression 2023, Cote D’Ivoire’s leading literary prize, were announced in Abidjan on August 17, 2023. The Prix Ivoire for African Literature in Francophone Expression or simply Prix Ivoire is a literary award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival awards 2023 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s literary awards were named on Monday, August 14, 2023. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet founded in 2019. It is designed to facilitate vibrant conversations about Caribbean identity…
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Kwame McPherson wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023
Kwame McPherson was named the winner of the global Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023 today, June 27, 2023. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English in the regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Each of these winners is then…