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The Emerging Caribbean Writers Prize, formerly known as the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, is jointly administered by the Bocas Lit Fest and the creative writing organisation Arvon, and is an award that allows an emerging Caribbean writer living and working in the Caribbean to devote time to developing or finishing a literary work in ...
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was established in 1987, as a successor to the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Each year, prizes for Best Book (1987–2011) and Best First Book (1989–2011) were awarded in four regions: Africa, Caribbean and Canada, South Asia and Europe and South East Asia and Pacific.
It is the only prize in the region that is open to works of different literary genres by writers of Caribbean birth or citizenship. [3] The prize award is US$10,000 and is sponsored by One Caribbean Media. [2] The shortlisted nominees are awarded $3,000. Books may be entered in three categories: poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction. [2]
Literary awards that recognize honorees in the multi-national Caribbean region, and also literary awards of specific Caribbean countries when a subcategory is available. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award – for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35 Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards Miles Franklin Award – for the best Australian published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases
Caribbean writer stubs (2 C, 63 P) Pages in category "Caribbean writers" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect ...
Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, the second Caribbean writer to receive the honour after Saint-John Perse, who was born in Guadeloupe, received the award in 1960. The Nobel committee described Walcott's work as "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural ...
Caribbean writers (26 C, 15 P) A. Caribbean literary awards (2 C, 1 P) B. Books about the Caribbean (9 C, 8 P) S. Scholars of Caribbean literature (14 P)