Congress of Caribbean Writers : themes, guests and prize-winners

1^st edition (from November 25^th to 28^th, 2008)

Theme : “Caribbean literature : Inventory, problems and prospects”

Guest of honour : Derek Walcott, poet and playwright from St. Lucia (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992)

2^nd edition (from April 6^th to 9^th, 2011)

Theme :“Circumstances, conditions and issues of literary creation in the Caribbean”

Honorary President : Roberto Fernandez Retamar, poet and essayist from Cuba

Guest of honour : Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, writer, journalist and playwright from the Dominican Republic

Winner of the“Great Literary Prize from the Association of Caribbean Writers” : Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian writer for his novel“It’s Just a Movie” (Faber and Faber – 2011)

3^rd edition (from April 10^th to 13^th, 2013)

Theme :“A collective epic, battles for freedoms”

Guest of honour : Russell Banks, US writer

Winner of the “Great Literary Prize from the Association of Caribbean Writers” : Edwige Danticat, essayist and author from Haiti, for her novel “Créer Dangereusement : l’Artiste immigrant à l’Oeuvre” (Grasset)

4^th edition (from April 15^th to 18^th, 2015 )

Theme : “Travels, migrations, diaspora in Caribbean literatures”

Guest of honour : Daniel Maximin, Guadeloupean writer

Winner of the “Great Literary Prize from the Association of Caribbean Writers” : Simone and André Schwartz-Bart, writers from Guadeloupe for their novel “L’Ancêtre en Solitude” (Seuil – 2015)