Archive: 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Derek Walcott’s White Egrets was the winner of the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The award was announced at a ceremony on the penultimate night of the 2011 Bocas Lit Fest. Walcott’s daughter Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, herself a fiction writer, received the award on his behalf.
The 2011 shortlist, consisting of the winners of the three genre categories:
Poetry
White Egrets, by Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) — Faber
Fiction
How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands) — Graywolf
Non-fiction
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA) — Princeton
More information on the shortlisted books here.
The 2011 longlist:
Poetry
Elegguas, by Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) — Wesleyan
A Light Song of Light, by Kei Miller (Jamaica) — Carcanet
White Egrets, by Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) — Faber
Fiction
The Loneliness of Angels, by Myriam Chancy (Haiti/Canada) — Peepal Tree
Redemption in Indigo, by Karen Lord (Barbados) — Small Beer
The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj (Trinidad and Tobago/Canada) — Knopf Canada
How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands) — Graywolf
Non-fiction
Beauty and Sadness, by Andre Alexis (Trinidad and Tobago/Canada) — House of Anansi
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA) — Princeton
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago/UK) — Picador
More information on the longlisted books here.
2011 judges
Arnold Rampersad, Chair
Author, academic, former Pulitzer Prize judge
Marjorie Thorpe, Vice-Chair
Former academic and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize judge
Poetry
Merle Collins, Chair
Author and academic
Jane King
Author and academic
Mark McWatt
Author, academic, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner and judge
Non-fiction
Bridget Brereton, Chair
Author and academic
Charlotte Williams, OBE
Author and academic
Fiction
Margaret Busby, OBE, Chair
Author, editor, former publisher
David Chariandy
Author and academic
Lorna Goodison
Author and academic
The 2011 shortlist, consisting of the winners of the three genre categories:
Poetry
White Egrets, by Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) — Faber
Fiction
How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands) — Graywolf
Non-fiction
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA) — Princeton
More information on the shortlisted books here.
The 2011 longlist:
Poetry
Elegguas, by Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) — Wesleyan
A Light Song of Light, by Kei Miller (Jamaica) — Carcanet
White Egrets, by Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) — Faber
Fiction
The Loneliness of Angels, by Myriam Chancy (Haiti/Canada) — Peepal Tree
Redemption in Indigo, by Karen Lord (Barbados) — Small Beer
The Amazing Absorbing Boy, by Rabindranath Maharaj (Trinidad and Tobago/Canada) — Knopf Canada
How to Escape from a Leper Colony, by Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands) — Graywolf
Non-fiction
Beauty and Sadness, by Andre Alexis (Trinidad and Tobago/Canada) — House of Anansi
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work, by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/USA) — Princeton
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago/UK) — Picador
More information on the longlisted books here.
2011 judges
Arnold Rampersad, Chair
Author, academic, former Pulitzer Prize judge
Marjorie Thorpe, Vice-Chair
Former academic and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize judge
Poetry
Merle Collins, Chair
Author and academic
Jane King
Author and academic
Mark McWatt
Author, academic, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner and judge
Non-fiction
Bridget Brereton, Chair
Author and academic
Charlotte Williams, OBE
Author and academic
Fiction
Margaret Busby, OBE, Chair
Author, editor, former publisher
David Chariandy
Author and academic
Lorna Goodison
Author and academic
