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Standing with fellow awardees is Kevin Adonis Browne, second from right, winner of the OCM BOCAS Prize for 2019. Mrs.
Dawn Thomas, Group Chief Executive Officer, One Caribbean Media, second left is also pictured – Photo courtesy Marlon
James, official festival photographer for BOCAS LitFest 2019.
BOCAS Literary Festival 2019 …and the winner is
Trinidadian author, Kevin Adonis Browne,
emerged the winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas
Prize for Caribbean Literature. Browne’s ‘High
Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean
Culture’ is an anthology of personal essays,
memoirs and photos surrounding the local
Carnival experience.
One Caribbean Media is the prize sponsor of the Annual BOCAS
Literary Festival where the overall winner receives US$10,000.00.
OCM also sponsored the festival’s Genre Category prizes, in
Poetry, Fiction and Non-fiction Awards. The winners of the genre
categories each received US$3,000.
This year, OCM also funded the festival’s genre category prizes
Poetry, Fiction and Non-fiction Awards.
The list of the 2019 winners are:
OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Kevin Adonis Browne, ‘High Mas’ (Trinidad)
POETRY AWARD
Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, ‘Doe Songs’ (Trinidad)
FICTION AWARD
Dionne Brand ‘Theory’ (Trinidad)
Earl Lovelace, center who is the first BOCAS OCM Prize winner,
chats with Dawn Thomas, Group Chief Executive Officer,
left and Michelle Lee, Advertising Manager Trinidad Express
Newspapers, right. Photo courtesy Marlon James, official
festival photographer for BOCAS LitFest 2019
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