Marina Carr awarded prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama

Marina Carr, the distinguished playwright and English lecturer at Dublin City University has been awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University were established in 2013 by Donald Windham in memory of his partner Sandy M. Campbell.

Carr is one of only eight English language writers from around the world that have been honoured.

The other recipients of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prizes at Yale University are André Alexis and Erna Brodber (fiction); Maya Jasanoff and Ashleigh Young (non-fiction); Ali Cobby Eckermann and Carolyn Forché (poetry) and Ike Holter (drama).

The awards will be conferred in September at an international literary festival at Yale University.

Each recipient will receive $165,000.

Carr is the first John McGahern Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University.

She is the author of numerous award winning plays including the Bog of Cats (1998, Irish Times/EST Award for Best New Play), On Raftery’s Hill (2000), Ariel (2002), Woman and Scarecrow (2007), The Cordelia Dream (2008), 16 Possible Glimpses (2011) and most recently Hecuba (2015).

Her previous awards include the Puterbaugh Fellowship (2012), the E. M. Forster Award (2001) and a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (1997).