For the second consecutive year, Guyanese writer Imam Baksh has been shortlisted for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.
In 2015, Baksh’s first novel, Children of the Spider, was judged the winner of the award, which is now in its third year. Baksh, who is a three-time winner of the Guyana Annual’s Henry Josiah Writing Short Story for Children prize, submitted a manuscript titled “The Demise of the Queen’s College