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UWI REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS, Jamaica – Founded in 1992, The University of the West Indies Press celebrated 20 years of publishing Caribbean scholarship in October 2012. To honour the contribution of all its stakeholders and authors to its publishing programme, the Press will hold its Twentieth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony in Jamaica on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at The University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters.  

According to Director Linda Speth, “The UWI Press Twentieth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony is designed to celebrate the contribution of all sixteen countries as it relates to the creation and dissemination of the Caribbean scholarship produced by the Press.” Among the fifteen award categories will be the Chancellor’s Personal Award, the Vice Chancellor’s Personal Award, Bestselling Scholarly Monograph, Bestselling Textbook, Bestselling Edited Collection, Bestselling General Interest Book and Bestselling Kindle Book.

The UWI Press is a not-for-profit scholarly publisher serving local, regional and international markets. The Press publishes in thirteen academic disciplines and is particularly well known for its work in Caribbean history, Caribbean cultural studies, Caribbean literature, gender studies, education and political science. The Press has over 350 books in print and has 60 of these books available in the Kindle and Kobo stores. Its books are peer-reviewed and approved by an editorial committee composed of local and international scholars.

Over the last twenty years UWI Press has won 42 international, regional and national book awards for scholarly, editorial and production excellence.

For more information, please contact:

Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager                                              

Phone: 876-702-4081/2, 876- 977-2659

Email:  uwipress_marketing@cwjamaica.com

Website:          www.uwipress.com

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)