The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize has just released the international longlist, which includes Belfast novelist Michael Magee’s Close to Home.
A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.
A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.
A report by Carole V. Bell for NPR. In 2023, two of the Pen/Faulkner Award finalists for fiction, Dionne Irving's The Islands and Jeffrey Escoffery's If I Survive You, were crafted by authors of Jamaican descent. Another, Fire Rush by Jaqueline Crooks, was a finalist for the UK Women's Prize for fiction. That's neither a blip nor an accident. A growing…
A growing number of high-profile novels are coming out of the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. And the region has long been punching above its weight on the international literary scene.