Claude McKay - Awards

Awards

  • Jamaican Institute of Arts and Sciences, gold medal, 1912, for two volumes of poetry, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads;
  • Harmon Foundation Award for distinguished literary achievement, NAACP, 1929, for Harlem Shadows and Home to Harlem;
  • James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Award, 1937.

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