Casa de las Américas Prize
- Casa de las Américas Prize
The Casa de las Américas Prize is a Cuban cultural award given by the Casa de las Américas, an organization founded in April 1959. It is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards. Some of the scholars and writers who have won this prize are Edward Brathwaite, Eduardo Galeano, Susana Rotker, Françoise Perus, Beatriz González-Stephan and Luis Britto García.
Awards are given out for poetry, narrative, essay, and testimonio, among other categories. Since 1976 there has been a jury for Caribbean literature in English or pidgin English. The first novel to win a prize from the Caribbean was "Ikael Torass" by N. D. Williams.
References
[http://www.casa.cult.cu/premios/literario/index.php Premio Literario Casa de las Américas]
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