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The influence of Trinidad-born, US-based Caribbeanist scholar Sandra Pouchet Paquet in shaping decades of intellectual and critical thought is impossible to understate, the Bocas Lit Fest has said. The festival is awarding her the 2023 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, in recognition of her pioneering contributions to academia, literature and
Morris, Baugh win Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
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THE 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award are Jamaicans Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris – both professors emeriti of the University of the West Indies.
Baugh and Morris are widely considered pioneers of the study of West Indian literature, over careers that each span half a century. They are to be honoured by the Bocas Lit Fest with the annual Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, a media release said.
The award, established in 2013, is named for the late BBC radio producer Henry Swanzy. Irish by birth, Swanzy worked as producer of the influential Caribbean Voices radio programme – originally founded by Jamaican Una Marson – from 1946-1954, becoming an essential figure in the development of modern West Indian literature.
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2021 Bocas Henry Swanzy Awardees Named
The 2021 recipients of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award are Jamaicans Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris both professors emeriti of the University of the West Indies.
Baugh and Morris are widely considered pioneers of the study of West Indian literature, over careers that each span half a century. Now they are to be honoured by the Bocas Lit Fest with the annual
Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters.
The Award, established in 2013, is named for the late BBC radio producer Henry Swanzy. Irish by birth, Swanzy worked as producer of the influential