2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners Announced

Mar 13, 2019

The eight winners of this year's Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. Each writer will receive a $165,000 prize to support their writing. This year, for the first time, recipients were announced live from London at an event co-presented with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Stationers' Hall.

This year’s Windham-Campbell Prize recipients are: in fiction, Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada); in nonfiction, Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States); in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States); in drama, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia).

Established in 2013 with a gift from Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy Campbell, the Windham-Campbell Prizes are among the richest and literary prizes awarded each year.

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