Awards recognise Bermuda authors
Date Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008Author: Bermuda Network News
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The winners of the Bermuda Literary Awards have been announced.
The awards were inaugurated by the Bermuda Government in 1999 to honour literary achievement by Bermuda’s writers and promote Bermudian literature.
The winning authors will receive their prizes at a ceremony at the Elbow Beach Hotel.
The prize for Non-Fiction was won by Rosemary Jones for “Bermuda Five Centuries” while Rawle Frederick’s “A Ballad of Orange Valley” and Angela Barry’s “Endangered Species and Other Stories” share the Brian Burland Prize for Fiction.
The Children and Young Adult Fiction winner was Janet Wingate for “Nonsuch Summer”.
No prize was awarded for poetry or drama.