Tag: Caine Prize 2014

  • Caine Prize 2014 judges announced

    Caine Prize 2014 judges announced

    The judges for the Caine Prize 2014 have been announced. The judging panel will be chaired by award-winning author Jackie Kay. She will be joined by the distinguished novelist and playwright  Gillian Slovo, Zimbabwean journalist Percy Zvomuya, assistant professor of English at the University of  Georgetown Dr Nicole Rizzuto, and the winner of the Caine…

  • Last call for Caine Prize 2014

    Last call for Caine Prize 2014

    We all know the benefits of winning the Caine Prize for African literature. For one, you get to be feted in all the capitals around where they know that the prize exists (which are a handful – London, Nairobi, Lagos, etc). You get to be spoken of in the same breath as Binyavanga Wainaina and…