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Writers Hazel Campbell & Sharon Leach To Receive 2011 Musgrave Awards
On Wednesday, October 12, writers Hazel Campbell and Sharon Leach will be among a list of eight distinguished Jamaicans who will receive the Institute of Jamaica’s prestigious Musgrave Medal. Campbell will receive a Silver Musgrave medal for her contribution to children’s literature and the encouragement of new writers, while Leach will receive a Bronze Musgrave [...]
Continue reading...Jamaican Children’s Author Diane Browne Wins Commonwealth Short Story Competition
1. October 2011
Jamaican children’s author, Diane Browne, recently won The Story for Children special prize in the 2011 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, for her entry The Happiness Dress. A children’s author and literary blogger, Brown has worked with Heinemann Caribbean, the Ministry of Education in Jamaica and on International educational projects. Her work has been published in [...]
Continue reading...The Jamaica Insula Book Series
21. August 2011
Kudos to Thibault Ehrengardt for the books (French language) in his Jamaica Insula series. French-speakers who are interested in Jamaica will find these very useful/handy. Les hommes illustres de la Jamaïque provides portraits of 11 of the most influential Jamaicans of all time – Thomas Gage, Marcus Garvey, Claudius Henry, Lewis Hutchinson, Vivian Jackson, Bob [...]
Continue reading...‘Project Educate Jamaica’ Needs Your Unneeded Books
19. August 2011
Project Educate Jamaica, a book and school supplies drive, needs your help. Donate your unneeded books and school supplies to them, by placing them in boxes located at: Pembroke High School St. Andrew Technical High School St. Joseph’s High School Khemlani Mary stores You may also contact them at (876) 905-0834 (Simone Johnson), or at [...]
Continue reading...National Creative Writing Competition 2010 Awards Winners
22. November 2010
More than 50 of the island’s writers received awards at the National Creative Writing Competition 2010 awards ceremony hosted last night by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC). Here are some of the winners: Karen Hutchinson – Best Overall Writer Diana McCaulay – Outstanding Writer Ditta Sylvester – Special Writer Twanda Rolle – Choice Writer [...]
Continue reading...Jamaican Author Marlon James Wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize
27. September 2010
Jamaican-born author Marlon James has been named the fiction winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel, “The Book of Night Women.” The book (his second) is set during a Jamaican slave revolt at the end of the 18th century. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in fiction [...]
Continue reading...UWI Lecturer’s Book About Haiti Wins Best Book Award
29. June 2010
Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957, a book by Dr. Matthew Smith, a lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), has won the Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Award for Best Book on the Caribbean, published 2008-2009. The citation read [...]
Continue reading...I Can! Brand Of Exercise Books Launched
6. June 2010
A new brand of exercise books was launched recently. It’s called I Can!, and its creators – Altano Morgan and Tamara Morgan – hope that it will help to inspire change among children, through its inspirational messages and pictures that are aimed at changing the behaviour of young people. After viewing exercise books with foreign [...]
Continue reading...The Dead Yard Wins Ondaatje Prize
30. May 2010
The Dead Yard, Ian Thomson’s tales of modern Jamaica, was recently presented with this year’s Ondaatje Prize by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature. The annual prize, which was established in 2004 by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, is one of the few to make no distinction between genres, and awards £10,000 to “a distinguished work [...]
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2. October 2011
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