The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published...
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Booker Prize, creating the Caine Prize and the Russian Booker Prize, and serving as president of the Royal African Society. Michael Harris Caine was born...
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Nadia Davids (category Philip Leverhulme Prize winners)
South Africa, serving in the role until July 2024. Davids won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story "Bridling", described by the...
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câine or -caine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caine may refer to: Caine (surname), a name (including a list of people with the surname) Caine,...
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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared...
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O'Henry Prize in 2022 for her short story "Breastmilk" and a second in 2023 for "The Hollow". "Breastmilk" was also shortlisted for the 2024 Caine Prize for...
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Binyavanga Wainaina (category Caine Prize winners)
21 May 2019) was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he was the founding editor of Kwani? literary...
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Namwali Serpell (category Caine Prize winners)
trends in African literature. Her short story "The Sack" won the 2015 Caine Prize for African fiction in English. In 2020, Serpell won the Belles-lettres...
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in Literature, three Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners. Coughlan, Sean (25 September...
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NoViolet Bulawayo (category Caine Prize winners)
was recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. In 2011, she won the Caine Prize with her story "Hitting Budapest", which had been published in the November/December...
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October 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024. "Previous Winners". Caine Prize. London, UK: The Caine Prize for African Writing. 2009. Archived from the original on...
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satirist and lawyer whose stories have twice been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Elnathan John was born in Kaduna, in north-west...
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Booker Prize–winning author Anote Tong – President of Kiribati Baldwin Spencer – Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Binyavanga Wainaina – Caine Prize–winning...
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shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2009 and is included in the anthology Work in Progress - And Other Stories (Caine Prize: Annual Prize for African Writing)...
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ISBN 9781857431797. The Council of the Caine Prize for African Writing, "Tribute to Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017)", Caine Prize blog, 1 February 2017. Adesanya...
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Nigerians are also well represented among recipients of the Caine Prize and Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Nigerian literature is predominantly...
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Binyavanga Wainaina, who initiated the project after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. The inaugural printed edition was released in 2003...
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favourite novels in this genre. A whole new generation of African writers – Caine Prize winners Binyavanga Wainaina (current director of the Chinua Achebe Center...
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Budapest", initially presented as a story in the Boston Review, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. The Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, said: "The language...
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short story "When a Man Loves a Woman" was shortlisted for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. Danquah was born in Accra, Ghana, to Josephine Nana...
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2021. In 1991, Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. The Caine Prize for African Writing, an award for short stories, was established...
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Leila Aboulela (category Caine Prize winners)
Museum – which is included in this collection - was awarded the inaugural Caine Prize for African Writing in 2000. It recounts the story of a Sudanese student...
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the House of Lords, along with winners of the Lasker Award, Booker Prize, Caine Prize, and Costa Book Award. Attempts to establish a university in Norwich...
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (category Caine Prize winners)
is the author of novels, short stories and essays. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers". Born in Nairobi...
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Helon Habila (category Caine Prize winners)
a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001. He worked as a lecturer and journalist in Nigeria...
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The Caine Mutiny is a 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers...
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Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Caine Prize for African Writing. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2023....
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Lesley Nneka Arimah (category Caine Prize winners)
2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. Arimah was...
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List of literary awards (redirect from List of literary prizes)
International Poetry Prize Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes Caine Prize Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize International Booker Prize Warwick Prize for Women...
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Fernandez in 2023 at Madrid, Spain. Winner of ROSL Readers' Award in Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated for the 2021 Locus Award for Best Anthology...
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