Prolific playwright Harold Bascom and renowned writer David Dabydeen copped the top awards in drama and fiction as the winners of the Guyana Prize for Literature and the Guyana Prize Caribbean 2014 Awards were announced last night at the Pegasus International Hotel.

Bascom was awarded the Guyana Prize and the Guyana Caribbean Prize in the Best Book of Drama category for his play ‘Desperate for Relevance’, ahead of Montserrat playwright David Edgecombe, whose play ‘Lady of Parham’, was also shortlisted for the Guyana Caribbean Prize.  The Caribbean Award is open to works written by citizens of the CARICOM states, the Commonwealth Caribbean and the Netherland Antilles. Bascom, who lives overseas and did not attend, is now a four-time Guyana Prize winner in the Best Drama category.

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