Tag: Edwidge Danticat
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CLMP Firecracker Awards 2025 finalists announced
The finalists for the CLMP Firecracker Awards 2025, including Edwidge Danticat, Mubanga Kalimamukwento, Yalie Saweda Kamara, JoAnne McFarland, and The Weganda Review, were announced on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is an organisation of independent literary publishers and magazines founded in the USA in 1967. The CLMP Firecracker…
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OCM Bocas Prize 2025 shortlist announced
The OCM Bocas Prize 2025 shortlist was announced in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, March 16, 2025. 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 categories: poetry, fiction…
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Edwidge Danticat Wins the PEN/Malamud Award 2023
Edwidge Danticat was named the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story 2023 on June 15, 2023. The PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story is awarded annually to writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form. The fund for the award, established by a generous gift…
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Edwidge Danticat, Yaa Gyasi are Vilcek Prize 2020 recipients.
Edwidge Danticat and Yaa Gyasi were among the recipients of the Vilcek Prize 2020 announced on February 1, 2020. The Vilcek Foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia to the United States. It awards two prizes annually to immigrants, one in biomedical science and one in a…
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Edwidge Danticat wins Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2018
Edwidge Danticat was announced the 25th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2018 on November 9, 2017. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is one of the very few international prizes for which poets, novelists and playwrights are equally eligible. The prize awarded in alternating years with the NSK Neustadt Prize for…