Windham-Campbell Prizes 2023 recipients announced

In the US, the recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prizes, worth US$175,000 (A$258,000) each, have been announced.

For fiction, the prize recognises US author Percival Everett for over 30 works of fiction and poetry ‘filled with sharp observations about aesthetics, gender, politics, race, and sexuality’, including his most recent satirical horror The Trees (Text); and US author Ling Ma for ‘staking out new and original ground’ in her debut novel Severance (Text) and subsequent short story collection Bliss Montage (Text).

In nonfiction, UK historian and author Susan Williams is celebrated for her academic analysis, archival research, historical insight and powerful narratives, including for her most recent work White Malice: The CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa  (Hurst); and Irish essayist, journalist and memoirist Darran Anderson is recognised for his writing ‘at the intersections of culture, politics, urbanism, and technology’, including in his debut Imaginary Cities: A tour of dream cities, nightmare cities, and everywhere in between (University of Chicago Press).

The poetry category recipients were US poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black feminist lessons from marine mammals (AK Books) and Iñupiaq-Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik, author of Blood Snow (Wave Books). The drama recipients were US playwright Dominique Morisseau and UK playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes recognise the body of work to date of eight writers from around the world, providing them with time to work on their craft. See last year’s winners here.

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