Guyanese writer wins Burt Award for Literature

Imam Baksh

Guyanese writer Imam Baksh was last evening awarded the Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.

Baksh, who is a three-time winner of the Guyana Annual’s Henry Josiah Writing Short Story for Children prize, received the prize for his manuscript, Children of the Spider.

The work, which is his first full-length novel, is described in an article from Bocas Lit Fest as capturing readers