About this program
Celebrate the finale of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize Festival with an evening of readings by all eight of this year’s recipients. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the artists shaping contemporary literature as they share excerpts from their celebrated works.
The 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients are: in fiction, Sigrid Nunez (United States) and Anne Enright (Ireland); in nonfiction, Patricia J. Williams (United States) and Rana Dasgupta (United Kingdom); in drama, Roy Williams (United Kingdom) and Matilda Feyiṣayọ (United Kingdom); and in poetry, Anthony V. Capildeo (Scotland/Trinidad and Tobago) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (United States).
About the Windham-Campbell Prizes
Established in 2013 and administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Windham-Campbell Prize annually recognizes eight English language writers from around the world. The mission of the award is to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns. The categories are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
