Guyana Literary Awards

Myriam J.A. Chancy, whose excerpt from The Loneliness of Angels was published in MR's Summer issue of Volume 51, was just awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award 2010 for Best Book of Fiction for her novel! 

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised there and in Canada, Chancy’s first novel Spirit of Haiti (Mango Publications, 2003) was shortlisted for the Best First Book, Canada/Caribbean region category of the Commonwealth Prize in 2004. The Loneliness of Angels was longlisted for the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature and shortlisted in its fiction category. Chancy is a Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.