Canada’s David Chariandy wins $165,000 Windham-Campbell fiction prize GlobeArts
Canadian author David Chariandy, one of two winners in this year’s fiction category, is the fifth Canadian recipient.At first, he thought it was a nasty practical joke. David Chariandy was in the archives at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad, conducting research for his next novel. He was reading about 19th-century sugar cultivation when an e-mail arrived from the Windham-Campbell Prizes, asking him to call about some good news. Chariandy brushed it off as a prank.
"Offering a vision at once entirely humane and immensely tender, David Chariandy lays bare the ways that gestures and details articulate the revelations of grief as well as the intimacies found within fraught and fraying social spaces,” the citation reads.The Windham-Campbell Prizes are surprise unrestricted grants. Writers do not apply and are unaware they have even been nominated. The news is delivered only after the decision has been made.
Chariandy's second novel, Brother, won the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the 2018 Toronto Book Award, and is a contender for this year’s Canada Reads on CBC.Chariandy, one of two winners in this year’s fiction category , is the fifth Canadian recipient, after Lorna Goodison, Hannah Moscovitch, André Alexis and John Vaillant.
That day in the archives, he was researching the role of newly emancipated black people and indentured South Asian people in the sugar industry, when he learned he had won the prize. “Afterwards, I honestly still didn’t believe it. I thought oh, okay someone could go to the next level [of the prank], which was just give me a [phone] number. So I half believed it and half didn’t.”Story continues below advertisement“I was dumbstruck,” says Chariandy, who is not generally at a loss for words.
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