
(l-r: Sharon Bridgforth, Emmanuel Iduma, Margo Jefferson, Wong May, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Tsitsi Dangaremba, Winsome Pinnock and Zaffar Kunial)
Today Tuesday 29 March 2022, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced this year’s recipients including Pulitzer prize-winning Margo Jefferson, the trailblazing playwright Winsome Pinnock, and PEN Pinter prize-winning Tsitsi Dangarembga, marking the 10th anniversary of one of the world’s most significant international literary awards.
Winners List
- Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) – fiction
- Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Zimbabwe) – fiction
- Margo Jefferson (United States) – nonfiction
- Emmanuel Iduma (Nigeria) – nonfiction
- Winsome Pinnock (United Kingdom) – drama
- Sharon Bridgforth (United States) – drama
- Wong May (Ireland/Singapore/China) – poetry
- Zaffar Kunial (United Kingdom) – poetry
For the past decade, this major global prize has recognised eight writers annually for literary achievement across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, at every stage of their careers. With total prize money now exceeding $14m USD.
Each recipient is gifted an unrestricted grant of $165,000 USD to support their writing and allow them to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
Mike Kelleher, Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes, said: “Across ten extraordinary years, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have celebrated exceptional literary achievement and nurtured great talent by giving the precious gifts of time, space and creative freedom.
We are proud to mark our 10th anniversary with the most exciting list of recipients yet.
Led by a trailblazing group of global women’s voices, these writer's ambitious, skillful, and moving work bridges the distance between the history of nations and a deeply personal sense of self.”
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