The Windham-Campbell Prize / en Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand recognized with Windham-Campbell prizes /celebrates/canisia-lubrin-and-dionne-brand-recognized-windham-campbell-prizes <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Canisia Lubrin and Dionne Brand recognized with Windham-Campbell prizes</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-03-26T15:27:30-04:00" title="Friday, March 26, 2021 - 15:27" class="datetime">Fri, 03/26/2021 - 15:27</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/windham-campbell-prize" hreflang="en">The Windham-Campbell Prize</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/school-continuing-studies" hreflang="en">School of Continuing Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/honorary-degree" hreflang="en">Honorary Degree</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/brand-lubrin.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Dionne Brand and Canisia Lubrin"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(Photos courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Renowned authors <strong>Canisia Lubrin </strong>and <strong>Dionne Brand </strong>have each received one of the world’s most sought-after literary awards: <a href="https://windhamcampbell.org/">The Windham-Campbell prize</a>.</p> <p>Awarded by Yale University to eight writers annually, the prize gives US$165,000 (more than C$206,000) to each author in recognition of their extraordinary literary achievements. While both Brand and Lubrin write in many forms, Brand was recognized for fiction and Lubrin for poetry.</p> <p>The author of the critically acclaimed <em>Voodoo Hypothesis</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/canisia-lubrin-uses-the-language-of-the-past-to-explore-the-future-in-her-new-poetry-collection-1.5538588">and&nbsp;<em>The Dyzgraphxst</em>,</a> Lubrin is an instructor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and was also recently named poetry editor at McClelland &amp; Stewart, succeeding Brand in the role. Describing her work, the judges said:&nbsp;“Bursting beyond the confines of legibility and the individual, Canisia Lubrin summons up oceans, languages, and the self, the other, and the first-person plural, into a generous baroque project of anti-colonial plenitude.”</p> <p>“It is impossible to express what this extraordinary encouragement means, what being in such company during such a catastrophic time, will make possible,” Lubrin said in a statement.</p> <p>Alumna <a href="/news/poet-writer-activist-and-u-t-alumna-dionne-brand-receives-honorary-degree">and honorary degree recipient </a>Brand is a novelist, essayist and Toronto’s former poet laureate, whose most recent book is called <em>Theory</em>.</p> <p>“Funny, wild, and completely lacking in pretension,&nbsp;<em>Theory&nbsp;</em>takes huge formal risks, reimagining the novel of ideas for our own moment, challenging and enchanting the reader at the same time,” the judges said.</p> <p>“This is an astonishing surprise,” Brand said in a statement. “It will take me weeks, maybe months to find the best words to describe my amazement. For now let me say, wondrous.”</p> <h3><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadians-dionne-brand-and-canisia-lubrin-among-winners-of-165k-us-windham-campbell-prize-1.5959340">Read the CBC story</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-renee-gladman-windham-campbell-prizes">Read the Guardian story</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-two-canadian-writers-win-yale-prize-a-week-before-one-takes-over-for/">Read The Globe and Mail story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:27:30 +0000 lanthierj 168875 at