Commonwealth Poetry Prize information

The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the...

Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Grace Nichols was born...

has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley...

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed...

Review of Books. His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi...

awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the...

Rausing Trust, the Brunel University African Poetry Prize, and others. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished...

Slave Song (1984), a collection of poetry, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Quiller-Couch Prize. A further collection, Turner: New and Selected...

Voices (1984) The Eye of the Earth (1986, winner of a Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the poetry prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors) A Nib in the...

for From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet 1985 – Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) for The Humble Administrator's Garden 1988 – Sahitya Akademi...

of many awards. His first book of poetry, Catalan Poems, was a joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize with Chinua Achebe's Beware, Soul Brother...

Canada.[citation needed] She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize for her first collection Brunizem in 1987. She...

Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged...

Best All-Round Entry In Poetry at the Nigerian Festival of Arts, for "The Call of the River Nun" 1979: Commonwealth Poetry Prize, for The Fisherman's Invocation...

include: three Arts Queensland Poetry Awards in the Val Vallis Poetry Award, Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the XYZ Prize for Excellence in Spoken Word...

and several plays. Her Selected Poems (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first...

International African Poetry Prize is a literary award aimed at the "development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa." The prize is sponsored by...

Asian Writers Award winner Shirley Geok-lin Lim – poet, 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner Chuah Guat Eng – novelist, Malaysia's first English-language...

Institute and the National Book League, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize awarded £250 to "the best first volume of poetry (to be) published during the previous...

Literature Brunel University African Poetry Prize Caine Prize for African Fiction Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5...

Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. He is director of the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Iowa. He is Poetry Editor of The Nation...

Ondaatje Prize is an annual literary award given by the Royal Society of Literature. The £10,000 award is for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that...

2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation. She is also the recipient of the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California...