Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a Trinidadian writer. She was awarded the second prize for "Public Notice" in the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition. Her debut novel When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton) was released in 2022 and won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
BornTrinidad and Tobago
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies, BA
University of East Anglia, MA
Notable awards
  • Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
    2014 "‘Walking in Lapeyrouse" – author
  • Small Axe Literary Competition, second place
    2016 "‘Public Notice" – author


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