The Guyana Prize for Literature 2023 will be awarded on Friday March 1 in the dedicated Awards Presentation Ceremony at the National Cultural Centre at 7 pm. The Shortlists in all categories have been in public circulation for some time and has generated some amount of suspense and speculation about the identity of the winners. This will be revealed when the Chairman of the Jury for each Award reads the Judges’ Report at the Ceremony. This ceremony is one of several events in the Guyana Prize Literary Festival being held this week-end.
The 2023 Guyana Prize Winners will then receive prizes in Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Non-Fiction, First Book of Fiction, First Book of Poetry, and in the Guyana Prize Youth Awards in poetry and short story (for writers between 14 and 18). The tradition has been that the winners are honoured by receiving their prizes from the President of the Republic on whose behalf the Guyana Prize is awarded.
