Alia Trabucco Zerán and Rodrigo Hasbún shortlisted for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2023
The shortlist for the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award has been revealed, featuring Alia Trabucco Zerán and Rodrigo Hasbún. Now in its twelfth year, the prize grants £20,000 annually to two writers – of fiction and/or non-fiction - for a yet-to-be-published book relating to the Americas (North, Central and South America and the Caribbean).
The award facilitates and inspires world-class storytelling in the UK and across the Americas, supporting writers in the creative stage of a new fiction or non-fiction project. The prize grants a year-long residency at the British Library and access to curatorial expertise within the Library’s world class Americas collections.
The Writer’s Award is celebrated globally through a dynamic series of events profiling winners at Hay Festival editions in Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Wales, as awardees join forces with other celebrated writers and thinkers to explore themes central to the Library’s Americas collections, championing new perspectives to audiences in the UK and Latin America.
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