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Caribbean: McWatt wins literary prizes

Monday, January 30th, 2006 @ 09:00 UTC

by Georgia Popplewell

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The Caribbean Beat Blog announces that Guyanese writer Mark McWatt has taken both the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in the Canada/Caribbean region, and the prestigious Casa de las Americas prize for Caribbean literature in English or Creole.

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