A feature film script set in a German-occupied Jersey Island during World War Two, has won Maya Hammarsal the annual David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize. Hammarsal’s Abandoned Islands follows a doctor on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, who could leave with his English wife before the Germans arrive, but chooses to stay and help the islanders through the many perils of occupation.
A Master’s student in the Creative Writing programme at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), Maya Hammarsal received the $2,000 prize at a function at the Embassy Theatre on Tuesday night. The annual prize is awarded to the best script written during the Master’s course.
