Brodber Wins Windham-Campbell Prize

Jamaican author Erna Brodber is one of eight winners of the fifth annual Windham-Campbell Prize. Each winner receives a no-strings-attached grant of $165,000.

The Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize was established “to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.” The prize is administered by Yale University, with a new nominating committee every year, and a jury choosing eight winners from those nominees. Authors are not told if they are under consideration before the prizes are announced.

Winners will be honored at a literary festival at Yale on September 13-15, 2017. For more information, including the full list of recipients, see the Windham-Campbell Prize website.