The Caribbean Beat Blog announces [1] that Guyanese writer Mark McWatt has taken both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in the Canada/Caribbean region, and the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize for Caribbean literature in English or Creole.
Caribbean: McWatt wins literary prizes
· Written by Georgia Popplewell
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