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Welcome to the latest installment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival,

A literary question for International Women’s Day: How do woman writers write the world?

The Annual Loop Awards 2022 will look at Author of the Year as its seventh category to spotlight some of the best literature coming out of the Caribbean. The authors selected for this category have all demonstrated their love of words. Additionall

The novel reveals society’s relationship with this form of abuse and how women bear the blame and responsibility for it.

British journalist Mary Ann Sieghart, who chaired the judging panel, said Ozeki's novel "stood out for its sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence, humor and poignancy."

The Canadian-American author's prize-winning novel is about a boy who hears objects speaking to him. The award aims to celebrate women's creativity and get more men reading women writers.

The annual prize recognizes the year's best novel written by a woman in English. Writers from around the world are eligible.

LONDON (AP) — A professor of English at Smith College in Massachusetts, Ozeki is also a filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, and her novel was inspired in part by Buddhist philosophy.

American-Canadian writer Ruth Ozeki has won the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel called “The Book of Form and Emptiness.”

The Book of Form and Emptiness is praised by judges for its ‘sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence and poignancy’