Tag: Jason Allen-Paisant
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Jason Allen-Paisant wins T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023
Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello was declared the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 in London, UK on Monday, January 15, 2024. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot had the poetry collections Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Ara Vos Prec (London) and Poems: 1920 (New York). The United States-born poet, who…
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Zadie Smith, Jason Allen-Paisant on The Writers’ Prize 2024 shortlist
Zadie Smith and Jason Allen-Paisant are on the shortlist for The Writers’ Prize 2024 announced on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. The Writer’s Prize was known as the Rathbones Folio Prize, a literary award celebrating writing in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction based in the UK from 2014–2015. It has been won by among others George Saunders,…
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UK’s Forward Prizes for Poetry 2023 winners announced.
Jason Allen-Paisant, Malika Booker, and Momtaza Mehri won at the Forward Prize for Poetry 2023 in Leeds, UK on Monday, October 16, 2023. The Forward Prizes for Poetry were founded by William Sieghart to celebrate excellence in poetry and increase its audience in 1992. There are four prizes on offer: The Forward Prize for Best…
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Ishion Hutchinson, Jason Allen-Paisant on T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 shortlist
Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant are on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 announced on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated to celebrate the UK Poetry Book Society’s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet in 1993. T.S. Eliot, full name Thomas Stearns Eliot…
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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 shortlist announced.
Jason Allen-Paisant, Celeste Mohammed, and Kei Miller are on the shortlist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 announced on March 27, 2022. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed out in 2011. Books are judged in three…
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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 longlist announced.
The longlist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022, with nine writers with roots in five different Caribbean countries, was announced on February 27, 2022. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed out in 2011, based in Trinidad…