Judge Spotlight – Richard Drayton
Chair of this year’s non-fiction judging panel, Richard Drayton is a Guyana-born historian, and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College, London. Drayton’s publications include Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World (2000); he also co-edits the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series with Megan Vaughan. The historian’s academic history includes studies as a Barbados ...
Judge Spotlight – Michael Bucknor
This year’s chair of the fiction judging panel for the OCM Bocas Prize, Michael Bucknor, is the head of the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies’ campus in Mona, Jamaica. An editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature, Bucknor’s scholarly accolades include a Ph.D. at the University of Western ...
Author Spotlight: Oonya Kempadoo
Bocas enthusiasts, we’ve just two weeks left to go until the festival officially kicks off! To further whet your appetite for the impending literary banquet, we’ll spend this time helping you fill in your “Who’s Who” primer of speakers, writers and other talent you won’t want to miss — along with the corresponding dates for ...
Judge Spotlight – Olive Senior
Dear Bocas enthusiasts, it’s that time again: time to virtually shake hands with the members of our judging panel! We don’t envy these folks — formidable writers, academics and scholars in their own right — their mammoth task of having selected this year’s longlist and shortlist: not to mention the looming honour of the 2013 ...
Highlights of the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Programme!
Dear Bocas enthusiasts, Chances are that you’ve seen the official programme we rolled out yesterday, as part of our media launch: and if you’re as excited as we are, we recommend that you begin prepping your schedule well in advance for maximum literary goodness! This year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest promises to be chock-full of ...
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