Ruel Johnson wins Guyana Prize for Best Fiction

Ruel Johnson (right) receiving his prize from President Donald Ramotar. At centre is UG Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi.

Ruel Johnson last night won the Guyana Prize for Literature for the Best Book of Fiction while other winners were poets Dr Ian McDonald and Cassia Alphonso, playwright Mosa Mathifa Telford and author Chaitram Singh.

As she delivered the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature Judge’s Report last evening at the Pegasus Hotel, Chairman of the Jury,