Kwame McPherson wins 2023 Commonwealth Short story prize 57-year-old Jamaican author wins with ‘Ocoee’, named after the Florida town and site of a brutal racial attack in 1920 by DredieMann
McPherson, who this year entered the prize for the seventh time, beat off 6,641 entrants worldwide to take the £5,000 prize.
McPherson says he was inspired to write ‘a mishmash of African American reality and history, and Caribbean folklore’ because he felt that ‘there are so many stories in the African Diaspora experience that are not well known and can be told to open others to that experience.’ “Creating and imagining worlds, sharing occurrences and experiences that brought no end of joy in seeing a reader engage and find pleasure in what I have produced.
“I am extremely proud I have represented my many friends, family and, importantly, my country Jamaica, in the way that I have.”
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