McWatt’s ‘Journey’ double winner at Guyana Prize awards

Myriam Chancy (right) as she shakes President Bharrat Jagdeo’s hand after receiving her award for her book ‘The Loneliness of Angels,’ which won her the 2010 Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award in the Fiction category. (Anjuli Persaud photo)

Professor Mark McWatt’s poetry collection, ‘Journey to Le Repentir,’ took top honours at the Guyana Prize for Literature awards ceremony on Thursday evening at the Pegasus Hotel.

The collection was named winner of both the Guyana Prize for Literature Best Book of Poetry Award and the inaugural Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award in Poetry. The night’s other winners were Professor David Dabydeen’s ‘Molly and the Muslim Stick,’ which