Our warmest congratulations to Diana McCaulay who just won the 2026 Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for her novel A House for Miss Pauline (Algonquin Books, 2025)! The RSL shares:

We are thrilled to award the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize to A House for Miss Pauline, written by Diana McCaulay.

“To evoke the spirit of a place has been the animating intention of all my novels and stories.” – Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay is an award-winning Jamaican writer and environmental activist, resident on the island. She has written six published novels and numerous short stories and articles. She won the Commonwealth Short Story prize twice, in 2012 and 2022, and is the founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust.

For more information, see https://www.instagram.com/p/DZDhh1iFIX2/ and https://rsliterature.org/

Also see our previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2025/03/03/new-book-diana-mccaulays-a-house-for-miss-pauline/

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