Booker shortlistee and UK playwright among winners of Windham-Campbell prizes

Recognising work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, the $175,000 awards aim to free writers to work without financial pressures

Booker prize-shortlisted author Percival Everett and Inupiaq-Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik are among the recipients of this year's Windham-Campbell prizes.

The prizes are awarded to eight writers each year for literary achievement across four categories - fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Each recipient receives $175,000 (140,000); this is up $10,000 from last year.