March 2012


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Look out for Bocas Lit Fest!

Look out for the 2012 edition of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, which takes place from April 26-29, 2012. Partly sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities at The UWI, the second edition of the literary festival features books, writers and writing. The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature will be presented on 28 April. The prize includes an award of US$10,000, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. The inaugural OCM Bocas Prize, presented in April 2011, was won by Derek Walcott’s White Egrets.

The judges for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature have announced a longlist of ten books:

Poetry

  • The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman, by Loretta Collins Klobah (Puerto Rico)
  • Tantie Diablesse, by Fawzia Kane (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • This Strange Land, by Shara McCallum (Jamaica/USA)

Fiction

  • The Ladies Are Upstairs, by Merle Collins (Grenada)
  • Near Open Water, by Keith Jardim (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Is Just A Movie, by Earl Lovelace (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Vital Signs, by Tessa McWatt (Guyana/Canada)

Non-fiction

  • Olympian: 75 Years of Trinidad and Tobago in Olympic Sport, by Basil Ince (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Colour Me English: Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11, by Caryl Phillips (St. Kitts/UK)
  • George Price: A Life Revealed, by Godfrey P. Smith (Belize)