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The NGC Bocas Lit Fest is the Trinidad and Tobago literary festival that takes place annually during the last weekend of April in Port of Spain. Inaugurated in 2011,〔("The Bocas Lit Fest: The Trinidad and Tobago Literary Festival" ), ''Repeating Islands'', February 2011.〕 it is the first major literary festival in the southern Caribbean〔("3 shortlisted for Bocas Prize" ), UWI Today, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, April 2011.〕 and largest literary festival in the Anglophone Caribbean.〔("NGC Bocas Lit Fest Debate on TV6 today" ), ''Trinidad Express Newspapers'', 22 April 2012.〕〔Carolyn Cooper, ("T&T Lit Fest Puts Us to Shame" ), ''Jamaica Gleaner'', 8 May 2011.〕〔("NGC Bocas Lit Fest Debate on TV6 today" ), Tun Up TV.〕 A registered non-profit company, the festival has as its title sponsor the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC).〔Iana Seales, ("Lit Fest opens up to non-English writers" ), ''Trinidad and Tobago Newsday'', 19 March 2015.〕 Other sponsors and partners include First Citizens Bank, One Caribbean Media (OCM), who sponsor the associated OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, CODE (sponsors of the Burt Award), and the Commonwealth Foundation.〔("NGC Bocas Lit Fest launched at NALIS" ), ''Loop'', 19 March 2015.〕〔("Our Sponsors" ), NGC Bocas Lit Fest.〕 The NGC Bocas Lit Fest also works in collaboration with other international festivals and initiatives, and has hosted events showcasing Caribbean writing talent in New York,〔("Bocas goes to Harlem! ) TT’s literary festival joins fiction programme in New York City", ''Trinidad Express Newspapers'', 4 July 2014.〕 at the Brooklyn Book Fair,〔("Bocas at the Brooklyn Book Fest" ), 2013. NGC Bocas Lit Fest website.〕〔Johnny Temple ("Bookish in Brooklyn" ) (on the Caribbean element in the Brooklyn Book Festival). Word of Mouth, ''Caribbean Beat'', Issue 117, September/October 2012.〕 the Harlem Book Fair〔("Coming from Far: Caribbean Writers on Home and Otherness (Readings and Discussion)" ). Presented by the NGC Bocas Literary Festival. Harlem Book Fair 2014.〕〔Ivette Romero, ("Bocas Goes to Harlem" ), Repeating Islands, 5 July 2014.〕 and elsewhere in the US. In 2012, Bocas partnered with the Edinburgh World Writers Conference (EWWC) as part of a lineup of 14 countries delivering a multinational series of talks marking the 50th anniversary of the five-day meeting of "an impressive, sensational and sometimes scandalous group of writers" at the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama.〔("World Writers at Bocas" ), ''Trinidad Express newspapers'', 10 March 2013.〕 ==Background== The Bocas Lit Fest organising team comprises Marina Salandy-Brown, founder and director; programme director Nicholas Laughlin,〔(Nicholas Laughlin's website. )〕 editor of the ''Caribbean Review of Books'' and of ''Caribbean Beat''; Funso Aiyejina, prize-winning author and dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine; Marjorie Thorpe, former professor of literature at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, independent bookseller Joan Dayal of Paper Based Bookshop;〔(Paper Based Bookshop website. )〕〔Aneka Lee, ("Paper Based at The Normandie a bibliophile’s hidden dream" ), ''Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'', 30 April 2014.〕 Danielle Delon, editor of ''The Letters of Margaret Mann''; local businesswoman Lucita Esau; and Patrice Matthews, a marketing and media professional.〔(About the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. )〕 The festival's name derives from the Spanish word for mouth, “''boca''” – the organ of speech and song and storytelling – while also referencing the Bocas del Dragón (the Dragon's Mouths), which are the narrow straits off Trinidad’s north-west peninsula that connect the Gulf of Paria to the Caribbean Sea. For centuries, the Bocas were the gateways connecting Trinidad to the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. The festival's strapline is: "Celebrating books, writers, and writing from the Caribbean and the rest of the world". The main venues are the National Library (NALIS)〔Annie Paul, ("The Bocas Lit Fest 2011" ), Active Voice, 7 May 2011.〕 and the Old Fire Station, in downtown Port of Spain.〔Marina Salandy-Brown, ("What’s in a festival" ), ''Newsday'', 26 April 2012.〕 There is also a full programme of activities for young readers, sponsored by KFC, and in the run-up to the festival storytelling events take place in Tobago, Couva, Chaguanas, San Fernando, Point Fortin, Mayaro and Arima. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NGC Bocas Lit Fest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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