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"Ottawa author Kai Thomas is shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for his acclaimed novel 'In The Upper Country'. Discover how this novel, intertwining Indigenous and Black histories, stands out in the historical fiction genre."

The award is among the richest fiction prizes in the UK.

Challenging what is normal and the value of order.

How to Say Babylon by Jamaican author Safiya Sinclair is the winner of the overall 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.The prize comes with a cash award of US$10,000,

The 2024 edition of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest — the Anglophone Caribbean’s biggest annual festival of words, stories, and ideas — kicks off in just four days. With an

2020 overall winner Kritika Pandey says, ‘Winning the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 has opened doors I had not imagined possible at this stage of my career’

Welcome to the latest instalment 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,

Books by authors from the US Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica have won the poetry, fiction and non-fiction categories of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

In the suburbs, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism are flourishing as Christianity plummets in a society with more atheists than ever.

In the suburbs, Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism are flourishing as Christianity plummets in a society with more atheists than ever.