Describing her work, the judges said: “Bursting beyond the confines of legibility and the individual, Canisia Lubrin summons up oceans, languages, and the self, the other, and the first-person plural, into a generous baroque project of anti-colonial plenitude.” The author of the critically acclaimed Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst, Lubrin is an instructor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and was also recently named poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart, succeeding Brand in the role. While both Brand and Lubrin write in many forms, Brand was recognized for fiction and Lubrin for poetry. Renowned authors Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand have each received one of the world’s most sought-after literary awards: The Windham-Campbell prize.Īwarded by Yale University to eight writers annually, the prize gives US$165,000 (more than C$206,000) to each author in recognition of their extraordinary literary achievements.
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