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Ten years after its inception, the Yale-based Windham-Campbell Prizes program is uniquely focused on 'the love of writers and writing.'

Dangarembga, American writer Margo Jefferson and British playwright Winsome Pinnock are among eight recipients of the $165,000 grants, as the award marks its 10th anniversary

Stuff After 113, the peach-coloured church perched on a hill in Mt Victoria has closed due to earthquake concerns. As Cardinal John Dew shuts the doors of St Gerard's church for the last time, a hush falls over the congregation. Soft piano notes reverberate up to the criss-crossed rafters. It was a solemn way to conclude the final mass held in the peach-coloured building which, nestled on a hill in Mt Victoria, has been a landmark in Wellington’s skyline for the past 113 years. The historic church has closed because of its earthquake-prone status. Its owners made the “difficult decision...

Sydney Chatman and Winsome Pinnock Named after the Tony-nominated playwright’s grandparents, the collaboration aims to provide funds for working artists at both the early and mature stage of artistic development. Chatman and Pinnock will each receive a $50,000 commission for a new theatrical work. Four finalists will also receive a cash prize of $12,500 each in support of their continued artistic endeavors: Rhodessa Jones, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Djanet Sears, and Pamela Sneed. Jeremy O. Harris Marc J. Franklin “I am grateful to be an i...

Young navy flier. a war hero in world war ii, and then he comes back and gets married and has a child, and he's at yale. this is not someone who lived life that was very similar to the other kids he grew up with in connecticut. had he wanted to, you're 100% right. he could have easily been shoe horned into an easy job on wall street, lived rich, not had to live in a way that was very difficult, because family connections could have done it for him. and instead he decided to do it in a way that was a little more audacio audacious. he took barbara and their child and went down to texas, and they...