Jason Allen-Paisant has won this year's £25,000 TS Eliot prize for Self-Portrait As Othello, it was announced on Monday night at a ceremony at the Wallace Collection in London. In Self-Portrait As Othello, published by Carcanet, Allen-Paisant draws a connection between Shakespeare's Othello and the experience of Black immigrants today. Last year his same book won the Forward prize for best collection. The judging panel, made up of poets Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul, said the collection had "large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and tecnnical flair ...we are confident that Self Portrait As Othello is a book to which readers will return for many years."

Jamaican-born Allen-Paisant is a senior lecturer in critical theory and creative writing at the University of Manchester. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two children. 

You can hear Jason Allen-Paisant talking about his double prize-winning collection here