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This year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been awarded to Jamaican writer Kwame McPherson. His entry was titled Ocoee, taking its name from a town in Florida where several African Americans were massacred in a horrifying, racially motivated.
JAMAICAN writer Kwame McPherson has been announced as the overall winner of the world's most global literature prize.
McPherson, who this year entered the competition for a reported seventh time.