29 March 2022

Windham Campbell Prizes 2022: Winners

These prestigious awards celebrate literary achievement, rewarding each recipient with $165,000 USD "to support their writing and allow them to focus on their work independent of financial concerns". 

The recipients are: 

Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism winner and former lecturer at Columbia University (United States, non-fiction) 

Emmanuel Iduma, art critic and writer whose work blends travel memoir, photography and history (Nigeria, non-fiction) 

Sharon Bridgforth, the playwright’s playwright, an institution of American theatre and advocate of jazz improvisation (United States, drama) 

Winsome Pinnock, the doyenne of the British theatre world, and the first Black British female writer to have a play produced by the Royal National Theatre (United Kingdom, drama) 

Tsitsi Dangaremba, English PEN Pinter Prize-winner whose work was named by the BBC as one of the top 100 books to shape the world (Zimbabwe, fiction) 

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, writer, academic and filmmaker and winner of the prestigious South African Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (Zimbabwe, fiction) 

Zaffar Kunial, a Faber Young Poet and former Wordsworth Poet in Residence, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Costa Prizes (United Kingdom, poetry) 

Wong May, enigmatic poet whose distinctive and experimental style has garnered fans across the world (Ireland/Singapore/China, poetry)

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