JWIL heartily congratulates editorial-board member Dr Kevin Adonis Browne on being awarded the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for his book High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture (UP of Mississippi).
Dr Browne’s win is particularly significant as it marks the first time the overall prize has been awarded to a non-fiction volume.
2019 OCM Bocas prizes were also awarded to Doe Songs by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné (Peepal Tree Press) in the poetry category, and Theory by Dionne Brand (Penguin Random House Canada) in the fiction category.
