Tag: Caine Prize
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Caine Prize workshop participants feature at #KigaliLit
The #KigaliLit session that happens regularly in Kigali, Rwanda this past month featured writers who had been attending the Caine Prize workshop in the East African country. They included previous Caine Prize shortlistees Bongani Kona (2016) and Arinze Ifeakandu (2017). #KigaliLit is an event hosted by Huza Press and other partners in Kigali, Rwanda featuring…
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 judges announced
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the five judges for the 2018 edition of the prize. The Caine Prize for African Writing is one of the most influential awards in African writing. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer published in English (indicative length 3,000 to 10,000 words).…
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Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner
Sudan’s Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner for his story The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away. The announcement was made in London, UK on July 3rd, 2017. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer published in…
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Eleven African writers descend on Dar es Salaam for Caine Prize workshop 2017
Eleven African writers are currently in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the annual Caine Prize workshop. The Caine Prize won’t be new to any reader of this blog. Started in 2000 to cast a spotlight on African writers, some of the most well-known writers have emerged since then. The Caine Prize workshop which is less…
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Caine Prize for Africa Writing 2017 judges announced
The Caine Prize 2017 judges have been announced and they are led by award winning author, poet and, editor Nii Ayikwei Parkes. He will be joined by Monica Arac de Nyeko, Professor Ricardo Ortiz, Ghazi Gheblawi, and Dr Ranka Primorac. The applications for the Caine Prize for Africa Literature will be closing on 31st January…
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Namwali Serpell wins Caine Prize 2015 (shocks everyone)
Namwali Serpell is the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2015. The Zambian was given the prize for her short story entitled The Sack from Africa39 (Bloomsbury, London, 2014) at a ceremony held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England last night. So what is The Sack about? The Chair of Judges Zoë…
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Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 shortlist announced
The five-writer shortlist for the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced by the Chair of judges, award-winning South African writer Zoë Wicomb. They are Namwali Serpell (Zambia), South Africans Masande Ntshanga and F. T. Kola (South Africa), Nigerians Elnathan John and Segun Afolabi. The Chair of judges, Zoë Wicomb described the shortlist…
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Twelve writers for Caine Prize workshop 2015 in Ghana
The Caine Prize workshop is one of those events that come along once a year. In these workshops which have been happening since 2003, writers who were shortlisted for the Caine Prize in the previous year are joined by other promising writers. They are mentored by experienced writers on the craft of writing. The workshops…
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Countdown to the Caine Prize 2015 shortlist, workshop in Ghana
The Caine Prize folks have announced their entry tally for this years shortlist and its a big number; 153 entries. Its a huge number if you consider that all these entries are from publishers in the African space. It is actually a record for the fifteen year old highly rated prize. With the prizes in,…
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Caine Prize’s Gonjon Pin and other stories launches in Harare
Gojon Pin and others stories is the latest anthology from our friends at the Caine Prize. The book contains stories from several writers the most “high profile” being the winner of the 2014 prize, Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor as well as the other four shortlisted ladies and gents. The others are the twelve writers from across…
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The Caine Prize 2014 winner is Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor!
The Caine Prize 2014 winner has just been announced in London and the winner this year is Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor. She becomes the third Kenyan winner of the prize after Binyanvanga Wainaina in 2002 and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor on 2003. The ceremony with several speeches started with a minute of silence for the just…
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Its Caine Prize Night: Best of luck to all the nominees
The winner of the Caine Prize will be announced tonight as part of the series of events called “Africa Writes” in its third year to celebrate African writing in London, UK. The nominees are Kenyans Okwiri Oduor and Billy Kahora the highest for us in East Africa. Also in the list are South African Diane…
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Caine Prize 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Caine Prize for African Literature, one of the continent’s hottest short story awards, has just been announced. This is the fifteenth year of the prize that was initially welcomed universally although the universality has been in question in recent years. Some of the more famous previous recipients of the award have…
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Caine Prize 2013 shortlist named; Nope, no Kenyans
The Caine Prize for African writing was announced yesterday and the list was quite surprising to say the very least; four Nigerians and 1 Sierra Leonian. No other nationality was named in what many consider one of Africa’s leading writing prizes. Kenyans have a pretty cool relationship with two Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Owuor winning…