The Guyana Prize for Literature Awards 2012 will be announced and presented tonight at the Awards Presentation to be held at the Pegasus Hotel starting at 7.00pm. His Excellency President Ramotar will hand over the Prizes while Prof Jane Bryce of UWI, Chairman of the Jury, will make the announcements after presenting the Judges Report.
The Prize was founded in 1987 when the first Awards were presented, and it has continued since then. Now, after 25 years, what can be said of this literary Prize and its relationship to the advancement of Guyanese and Caribbean literature? A look at the 2012 Shortlists might be relevant to this question. This is the
