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The 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters has been awarded to the pioneering Journal of West Indian Literature, the foremost periodical dedicated to Anglophone Caribbean literary scholarship. This announcement was made on March 26 during a media conference to unveil the programme for the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest.
First presented in 2013, the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award is named for the late BBC World Service radio producer (1915-2004). Swanzy’s work as an editor and producer on Caribbean Voices, the programme originally founded by Una Marson of Jamaica, provided a landmark platform for Caribbean writing in the 1940s and 50s, broadcasting fiction, poems, essays, and criticism by West Indian writers across the region.
Created by the Bocas Lit Fest in Swanzy’s memory, this award celebrates the contributions of editors, broadcasters, publishers, critics, and others who have devoted their careers to developing Caribbean literature. Bocas Henry Swanzy Awardees are chosen by the festival’s organisers and honoured annually at the Bocas Lit Fest.
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