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Earl Lovelace Wins Commonwealth Writers Prize '97
THE INTERNATIONAL JUDGING panel unanimously and enthusiastically praised Earl Love-lace's novel Salt, comm-enting, "This is a book of great beauty and force which is going to take Its place as one of the classics of 20th century world literature.”
Chair of the judges, Professor Hermione Lee described Salt as "a Caribbean novel of huge vigour and vitality. written with dazzling energy. It is at once a human story full of humour, pain, courage and sympathy and a powerful, generous, masterful analysis of colonial history."
The three other overall best book contenders. Beryl Bainbridge (Britain), Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) and Sue Woolfe (Australia) were also highly praised by the Judges.
As part of the prize's unique tradition, Earl Lovelace was presented to Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 1st May.
The Commonwealth Writers Prize, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary. is one of the most important literary prizes in the world. The winners are selected from a field of the finest writers from 53 countries. The impressive list of previous winners which includes Vikram Seth. David Malouf and Mordecai Rlchler confirms that the Commonwealth Writers Prize continues to reward works of universal appeal and lasting significance.
The £3,000 prize for Best First Book has been awarded to Ann-Marie MacDonald of Canada for her novel Fall On Your Knees, selected from an outstanding list of writers Including Sia Flgiel (Western Samoa), Ronnie Govender (South Africa) and Jeremy Poolman (Britain). The eight Commonwealth Writers Prize finalists had all already won £1000 regional prizes.
The Commonwealth Writers Prize was established by the Commonwealth Foundation in 1987. The Award Is Judged and presented tn a different Commonwealth country every year.
Salt
Born In Toco. Trinidad, Earl Lovelace is no stranger to either literary prizes or world renown. His books have been translated into German, Dutch,
French and Hungarian, and his previous work. While Gods Are Falling, won the BP Independence Award.
Salt is an extraordinary and hilarious novel which explores the intermingling of cultures that makes the contemporary West Indian experience unique. Infectiously funny, passionate, and elegantly written, Salt is peopled by women and men who are striving to make sense of the Intimacies and the contradictions of their lives In the still -young country of Trinidad: the old attitudes persist in the form of vassal and landowner, yet "every green leaf and tangle of vines sings freedom." A vibrant and praiseworthy novel. Salt Is well deserving of this prize.
Fall on Your Knees
From one of Canada's celebrated playwrights comes a stunning first novel. Rich and intensely moving, as well as by turns dark and hilariously funny. Fall On Your Knees takes the reader from the haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I to the emerging jazz scene of New York City and Into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Fall On Your Knees Is a story of Inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder. birth and death, and forbidden love.
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer and actor. Her play. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Jultet), won the Governor-General's Award, the Chalmers Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award and has more than fifty productions worldwide. She lives and works in Toronto.
The 1997 Judging panel was chaired by Professor Hermione Lee with regional chairs: Professor Francis D Im buga, Kenyatta University, Nairobi for the Africa region; Ms. Jane King Hippolyte, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, St Lucia for the Caribbean A Canada region; Professor Kaiser Haq, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh for the Eurasia region; Kee Thuan Chye, Literary Editor, New Straits Times. Malaysia for the SE Asia A SouthPa-clflc region.
Based on the Commonwealth Foundation press release