Mathelinda Nabugodi, a CDH associate, has won the £10,000 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award for her “engaging and fascinating” work of non-fiction “The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive”.
This biennial prize is awarded to a first-time writer whose work demonstrates literary talent but who needs support to complete their first book. This can be fiction, non-fiction or short stories.
Mathelinda a Leverhulme Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of English and a Postdoctoral Affiliate of Newnham College.
Read more on the Deborah Rogers Foundation website: https://www.deborahrogersfoundation.org/writers-award
