Jamaican writer Ishion Hutchinson receives prestigious writing award
NEW YORK, USA- Jamaican writer Ishion Hutchinson yesterday was named as one of the recipients of the prestigious Whiting Writers Awards reports the New York Times.
According to the world renowned New York newspaper, Hutchinson received his awards for his book of poems entitled “Far District: Poems”.
Writes the Times: “’The Whiting Writers’ Awards, given annually to 10 writers who have “exceptional talent and promise in early career,” were announced on Monday.
Each writer receives US$50,000 from the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, established in 1963 by Flora E. Whiting. The awards honor works in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays, and are intended to identify writers, the foundation says, “who have yet to make their mark on the literary culture.”
The 2013 winners are Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (“The Man Who Danced With Dolls”); Amanda Coplin (“The Orchardist”); Jennifer duBois (“Cartwheel”); Virginia Grise (the play “Making Myth”); Ishion Hutchinson (“Far District: Poems”); Morgan Meis (“Ruins”); C. E. Morgan (“All the Living”); Rowan Ricardo Phillips (“The Ground”); Clifford Thompson (“Signifying Nothing”); Stephanie Powell Watts (“We Are Taking Only What We Need”).
