Kerry Belgrave 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

ArtsEtc Editor and 2nd-place Colly winner Linda M. Deane with top awardee Kerry Belgrave. Between them is then Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados DeLisle Worrell. Photo Copyright © 2017 The Barbados Advocate.

 

THERE WERE some repeat performances for the 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Awards.

The three winners had all taken first place in previous years, but this time Kerry Belgrave came out on top with his poetry collection @bb.now/tek culture?.

He took home the coveted prize—and $10,000—for his latest effort.

Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian Literature

How important is it that a man born in Barbados, whose family goes back over three hundred years on the island and who wrote a novel that is among the best of Barbadian writing, is largely forgotten by his fellow countrymen?