Books of blood books5/13/2023 ![]() Such choices were a question of space I’ve no more empty bookshelves even after agonizingly whittling down by about seven boxes to mostly Caribbean literature. These are just a handful of the nuggets that comprise the entire treasure of what we are producing through home-grown creativity, hard work, talent, mentorship and ambition.Ĭircling the national library’s atrium in-between sessions, I pressed close to booksellers’ tables like a candy store window, trying to decide which books to buy. ![]() The non-fiction prize was awarded to Ira Mathur’s epic transnational autobiography, Love the Dark Days. ![]() While the One Caribbean Media (OCM) award, symbolising the most commended book of the festival, went to Ayana Lloyd Banwo for her outstanding novel, When We Were Birds, the poetry prize went to Anthony Joseph for his recent collection, Sonnets for Albert, which captures his memories of his father in snapshots of vivid verse. Up close and personal, the connection to both writers and their work felt wonderfully intimate and familiar, so typical of us in these small islands. In-person or online, one could hear readings from recent publications and backstories from this generation of award-winning Caribbean authors as they are ascending a global stage. There was a glittering wealth of writing from the Caribbean, and from TT. ![]() ![]() OVER THE weekend, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest gathered more than 100 novelists, short-story writers, biographers and poets to exuberantly celebrate books. ![]()
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