Jamaican Author Erna Brodber Wins International Literature Prize
Jamaican author and social activist Erna Brodber is one of eight writers who will each receive an unrestricted grant of US$165,000 after winning the Windham-Campbell Prizes offered by Yale University in the US.
Windham-Campbell prizes are awarded each spring in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
Brodber, who was born in Woodside, St Mary gained a B.A. from the University College of the West Indies, followed by an M.Sc and Ph.D.
Among the novels she authored are: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980), Myal (1988), Louisiana (1994) and The Rainmaker’s Mistake (2007).
She won the Caribbean and Canadian regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1989 for Myal.
And in 1999 she received the Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature.
Brodber is a winner in the fiction category.
Winners will receive their awards in September.
The money is to be used to support the work of the authors.
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