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Sweet Li Jie by David Dabydeen in the running for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
David Dabydeen's latest novel, Sweet Li Jie has been shortlisted for the Caribbean's biggest literary prize. Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Presented annually since 2011, the OCM Bocas Prize is the most coveted award for Caribbean.

The judges praised the novel highly, saying:

The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist was announced on Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT) – and we're pleased to announce that Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Small Axes) is on the list. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter.

by Jeremy Poynting

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ON THE SYNTACTICS AND POETICS OF SKUNT: 

A Celebration of Berkley Wendell Semple's Kipling Plass

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We’re delighted to share the winners of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2024. Peepal Tree is a proud partner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has supported the prize since its inception. 

The 2024 winners are as follows:

The Forward Book of Poetry 2025 collects the best poetry published and performed in Britain and Ireland in the past year. It's a not-to-be-missed overview for poetry fans and a great way in for new readers of contemporary poetry.

This year's poets include Kwame Dawes, Ishion Hutchinson, Pascale Petit, Danez Smith and more.

Buy the book online.

Peepal Tree Press is saddened to learn of the death of Ameena Gafoor who made an immense contribution to the literary arts in Guyana and to her role in setting up the Ameena Gafoor Institute dedicated to the study of indentureship and its legacies. We provide a link to al creighton's article in Stabroek News which celebrates the importance of Ameena's work.

Read al creighton's article at Stabroek News.

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To mark the publication of Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953, here's an introduction to his published work, as well as some of the important work that discusses his legacy.