By Frank Chung
Publication Date: 2026-05-19 23:42:00
A major Commonwealth literary prize has dismissed AI claims after an award-winning entry was scrutinized online and found potential evidence suggesting it was written by ChatGPT.
The Commonwealth Foundation announced the regional winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize last week. Five authors were selected from 7,806 submissions from 51 member countries.
The prize for the Caribbean region went to the Trinidad and Tobago-born author Jamir Nazir The snake in the grove“a story of a struggling farmer, a silenced young woman, and a grove that seems to remember what people are trying to bury.”
Nazir is a 61-year-old Trinidadian writer of East Indian heritage “whose work explores the cultural intersections of the Caribbean and Indian diaspora.”
“He is a prolific poet and author of published books and more, best known for his love of poetry,” his biography states, although he has few published works to his name.
“His writing is based on landscapes, stories…
