It was a joy for us to collate your recommendations for the 100 Caribbean Books that Made Us on social media during our five-week campaign in 2020, and we want to recognise all the books that were named by you during the crowd-sourcing phase. The 308 titles that have “made” you, our audience, can be
Gene is a musician (finger style acoustic guitarist), a composer and arranger who has performed throughout the Caribbean and abroad, and has several albums to his credit. His compositions and arrangements have been used by some of the biggest names in Caribbean Show Business, such as Derek Walcott, Dr. Adrian Augier, Ellen O’Malley Camps, Paul
Since the inaugural award was presented in 2011, The OCM Bocas Prize has longlisted over 90 books by Caribbean writers, raising their international profile, and recognised 29 winners, many of whom have gone on to win other major international writing prizes. 2020 Winners 2020 OCM Bocas Prize Winners POETRY & OVERALL WINNER: Epiphaneia, by Richard Georges
The Latin American and Caribbean Literary Film Festival, an integral part of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival that offers authors’ readings, panel discussions, workshops, performances, debate, spoken word, prizes, drama, music, book signings and a full children’s festival. The festival had a food court and multiple areas to relax
Always The Mix and Blend, Malika Booker Read Poem Malika Booker is a poetry Lecturer at Manchester University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage and the founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her first poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre
The 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. are Jamaicans Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris — both professors emeriti of the University of the West Indies. Baugh and Morris are widely considered pioneers of the study of West Indian literature, over careers that each span half a century.
Since the inaugural award was presented in 2011, The OCM Bocas Prize has longlisted over 90 books by Caribbean writers, raising their international profile, and recognised 29 winners, many of whom have gone on to win other major international writing prizes. 2020 Winners 2020 OCM Bocas Prize Winners POETRY & OVERALL WINNER: Epiphaneia, by Richard Georges
The 10th annual literary festival was an unimagined reality. As the Bocas Lit Fest team approached 2020, our excitement grew, imagining how we could make the entire year memorable and suitably special after ten consecutive years. 2020 called to mind the old adage “be careful what you wish for because you just might get it”
In 2015, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest reached a small milestone —the fifth year of Trinidad and Tobago’s annual Festival of words, stories, and ideas. Started in 2011, the festival hosted hundreds of events and writers and ran dozens of programmes aimed at finding and encouraging new literary talent, and expanding audiences for the literary
The Bocas Henry Swanzy Award The 2024 recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award is Guyana-born, UK-based Arif Ali, founder of Hansib Publications, for his role in preserving generations of Caribbean culture, thought, and art in print — recognising his tenacious dedication to giving Caribbean and Black British voices a creative platform when they were denied by
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