Guyanese author Imam Baksh has for the third time been shortlisted for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.
In 2015, Baksh’s first novel, Children of the Spider, was judged the winner of the award, which is now in its fifth year. In 2016 his second novel “The Demise of the Queen’s College Adventure Club” was shortlisted but did not win. This year his manuscript titled “The Dark of the Sea” has been selected as one of three finalists.
The novel is described by the Bocas jury as “a compelling page turner.”
“This fantastical adventure story follows the journey of a young man who is rebellious, unimpressed by education and religion, cynical about the future, and obsessed with girls. The humour is dark, the morality complicated …and the victories bittersweet,” the jury explains.
