The Members of the Jury have completed their very intense deliberations and debates and have reached agreement on the winners of the Guyana Prize for Literature and the Guyana Prize Caribbean Awards. They will announce their decisions tonight at the Awards Presentation Ceremony to be held at the Pegasus Hotel starting at 7.
Awards will be presented to the winners in Fiction, Poetry and Drama as well as First Books of Poetry and Fiction for the Guyana Prize, which is exclusively for Guyanese citizens. Winners will also receive awards in Fiction, Poetry and Drama for the Caribbean Prize, which is open to citizens of all the Caribbean countries.
The Jury is an independent panel with sole responsibility for making all decisions about the shortlists and the winners. Its members were assembled from the international community of writers, experts and specialists of high repute from a variety of different countries in the fields of literature, drama, creative writing, cultural studies and criticism. They are