Awards And Prizes
April 2019: Diana's forthcoming novel, Daylight Come, placed third in CODE's Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. It will be published by Peepal Tree Press in September 2020.
May 2015: The Dolphin Catchers won second prize for CODE's Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, which recognizes outstanding literary works for young adults written by Caribbean authors.
April 2014: Diana won the Hollick Arvon Prize for a non fiction work in progress, and is working on her fourth book entitled Loving Jamaica: A memoir of place and (not) belonging.
May 2014: Huracan was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize for International Writing.
May 2015: The Dolphin Catchers won second prize for CODE's Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, which recognizes outstanding literary works for young adults written by Caribbean authors.
April 2014: Diana won the Hollick Arvon Prize for a non fiction work in progress, and is working on her fourth book entitled Loving Jamaica: A memoir of place and (not) belonging.
May 2014: Huracan was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize for International Writing.
The Dolphin Catcher wins 2012 Commonwealth Regional Prize for the Caribbean
Commenting on the winners, chair of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Bernardine Evaristo said, “The five regional winning stories this year rose to the top of a pool of 2200 entries and are the result of vigorous debate among the judges. We discussed not only the quality of the storytelling but the context of their respective literary cultures including notions of stereotypes and ‘the prize-winning formula’. Our final choices encompass range, depth, beauty, unpredictability and re-readability. These short stories will take you on a journey that spans cultures, eras, generations, and diverse ways of being and seeing. To read them is to inhabit other worlds.”
Commenting on the winners, chair of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Bernardine Evaristo said, “The five regional winning stories this year rose to the top of a pool of 2200 entries and are the result of vigorous debate among the judges. We discussed not only the quality of the storytelling but the context of their respective literary cultures including notions of stereotypes and ‘the prize-winning formula’. Our final choices encompass range, depth, beauty, unpredictability and re-readability. These short stories will take you on a journey that spans cultures, eras, generations, and diverse ways of being and seeing. To read them is to inhabit other worlds.”
Dog-Heart won a Gold Medal in the Jamaica Cultural
Development Commission’s National Creative Writing Awards (2008), was
shortlisted for the Guyana Prize (2011), the IMPAC Dublin Award (2012) and the
Saroyan Prize for International Writing (2012).
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