We are pleased to announce that Ira Mathur has won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-fiction, on an all-Trinbagonian honours list including Anthony Joseph and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.
Ira's memoir Love the Dark Days scooped the prize for non-fiction, while Anthony Joseph won the poetry prize for Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury) and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo won the fiction prize for When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton/Doubleday).
In its coverage of the awards, the T&T Guardian notes that this is the second time all three awards have gone to authors from T&T in the 13 years of the prize.
