Kevin Jared Hosein takes Walter Scott fiction prize
Source: BBC
Caribbean writer Kevin Jared Hosein has won the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.His novel Hungry Ghosts - which tells the story of marginalised Hindu communities in Trinidad during the 1940s - was announced as the winner at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose.Judges described it as a "richly imaginative, urgent and compelling" work.He received the £25,000 first prize from Mathew Maxwell Scott, a…
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