“And of course, the daily news coming out of not just Malaysia, but also the U.S. “Two books by unjustly imprisoned men especially informed my work: Universiti Kedua (The Second University) by Kassim Ahmad and Sengsara Kem Kamunting: Kisah Hidup dalam Penjara ISA (The Tortures of Camp Kamunting: Life Behind Bars in the ISA Prison) by Saari Sungib,” she told Authors 18. Hernández was the second person to take home the award in 2018.ģ Chin Researched Imprisoned Men Ahead of Writing Her Stirring Debut. In awarding YZ Chin the inaugural prize, Judge Ana Castillo called her novel “complex and intimate.” Claudia D. Inspired by Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner-one of the first contemporary American novels to feature a young Black girl as the protagonist-the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize was founded by Feminist Press and TAYO Literary Magazine in 2017 to shine a light on women writers of color. 2 It Took Home the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.

That realization formed the seeds for Though I Get Home.” She also shared that the title comes from a poem by Emily Dickinson. “I spent a lot of time exploring the roots of this self-repression, and I realized that I had been conditioned by a lifelong atmosphere of state censorship. “When I first started writing fiction seriously, it was pointed out to me that I was really holding back from writing about ‘taboo’ topics like sex,” she told Authors 18 in January. 1 It Was Inspired by Emily Dickinson & a Fear of “Self-Imposed Censorship.”

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