Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison wins the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry with Dante’s Inferno. Her Inferno begins at Halfway Tree, a major intersection in Kingston, with Miss Lou as her guide.
Some writers describe their country to make it easier to love. Marlon James, on the other hand, does almost the opposite. He portrays Jamaica as
On November 9 1992, in Paris, the Prix Goncourt jury announced its winner: Patrick Chamoiseau, for “Texaco“. The news crossed the Atlantic. In Fort-de-France, Chamoiseau’s
At the 2026 edition of the Bocas Lit Fest, in the Old Fire Station in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Margaret Busby, president of
When Edwidge Danticat arrived in Brooklyn at the age of twelve, in 1981, English was not her language. She wore Haitian clothes, spoke Creole as
Rita Indiana published La Mucama de Omicunlé in 2015, unaware that she had just written one of the most influential Caribbean novels of her generation.
The Jardin d’Eau in Goyave resounded with emotion on Monday, October 27, as a tribute was paid to Hector Poullet. Through the 14ᵉ edition of
“The Queen that Wears the Crown” written by Horane Smith, an iconic figure in Jamaican-Canadian literature, returns to the forefront with his 15th novel. Published
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