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Olive Senior wins OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Jamaican-Canadian author Olive Senior has won the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for her story collection The Pain Tree (Cormorant Books). The $10,000 (U.S.) prize was presented at the Trinidad and Tobago NGC ... Read More »

May 4, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Olive Senior wins OCM Bocas Prize for fiction

By Becky Robertson

Jamaican-born, Toronto-based poet and novelist Olive Senior has been named winner of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the fiction category for her novel The Pain Tree (Cormorant Books). The win pits ... Read More »

March 31, 2016 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

André Alexis, Austin Clarke, Olive Senior longlisted for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

By Becky Robertson

Three Toronto authors have been nominated for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning authors André Alexis and Austin Clarke, along with poet and novelist Olive Senior, are among nine Caribbean authors ... Read More »

March 8, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Three Canadian novels among Commonwealth Book Prize nominees

By Sue Carter

Three Canadian novels, all from independent publishers, have been shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. Riel Nason's The Town that Drowned (Goose Lane Editions), Olive Senior's Dancing Lessons (Cormorant Books), and Johanna Skibsrud's The ... Read More »

April 24, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Bezmozgis, Zentner shortlisted for Amazon.ca First Novel Award

By Sue Carter

Governor General's Literary Award nominees David Bezmozgis and Alexi Zentner can now add the Amazon.ca First Novel Award shortlist, announced this morning, to their list of accolades. Bezmozgis was also shortlisted for last year's Scotiabank ... Read More »

February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

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