Kei Miller on Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

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The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a bid of conversations with past and contiguous Windham-Campbell Prize winners astir their favourite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher.

Prize Director Michael Kelleher talks with 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction recipient Kei Miller astir Yuval Noah Harari’s sprawling and sometimes arguable publication Sapiens and astir however humanity is fabrication (and vice-versa).

Kei Miller is simply a Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and victor of the prestigious Forward poesy prize for his postulation The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. His astir caller publication is the effort postulation Things I Have Withheld, retired successful 2021. His communicative postulation Fear of Stones was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and his astir caller novel, Augustown was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Prix Les Afriques, and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature and successful 2018 helium was awarded the Anthony Sabga medal for Arts & Letters. He has taught astatine the Universities of Glasgow, Royal Holloway and Exeter and, successful 2019, helium was the Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Iowa.

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