2006 Guyana Prize winners
2006 Guyana Prize winners Elly Niland, Ryhaan Shah, Cyril Dabydeen, and Mark McWatt at the awards ceremony in Georgetown, 23 August, 2007. Photo by Jules Gibson of the Stabroek News
And the winners are…. Dabydeen, McWatt, Niland, Shaah, and Gilkes. The 2006 Guyana Prizes for Literature were presented last night (read a short report in today’s Stabroek News). The full list:
Best fiction prize: shared by Cyril Dabydeen’s Drums of My Flesh and Mark McWatt’s Suspended Sentences.
Best poetry prize: Elly Niland’s Cornerstones.
Best first fiction prize: Ryhaan Shah’s A Silent Life.
Best drama prize: Michael Gilkes’s Last of the Redmen.
