The Stabroek News website has been down for a couple of days, but today's Chronicle reports the winners of the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature, announced at a ceremony on Sunday.
Michael Gilkes has won the poetry prize for his book Joanstown (helpfully described by the Chronicle's writer as "a series of love poems to Georgetown and someone named Joan"). There were no prizes for fiction or drama; "submissions this year did not measure up to the judges expectations".
The prize for the best first book of poetry went to Stanley Greaves, for Horizons; & Ruel Johnson's unpublished manuscript "Ariadne and Other Stories" was named best first book of fiction.
Also a "special prize" was announced for Guyana's most celebrated writer, Wilson Harris; it will be presented in a fortnight, when Harris will be paying his home country a visit.
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Who is Nicholas Laughlin?
I am a writer (read some of my reviews, essays, etc. at Choosing My Confessions), editor of The Caribbean Review of Books and Caribbean Beat, and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest. Visit my home page for more details. I’m a bit more active on Twitter: @nplaughlin.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
My second book of poems, Enemy Luck, was published in 2019 by Peepal Tree Press.
My first book of poems, The Strange Years of My Life, was published in 2015 by Peepal Tree Press.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
Blogs I read oftenish
Caribbean magazines, journals, newspapers
Literary magazines, websites, and blogs around the world
Other people, places, things that interest me (in no particular order)
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