Caine Prize shortlist announced
Date: May 5, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Shortlist for the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced. Three of the five authors shortlisted for this £10,000 prize are Nigerian. Winners will be known on Monday, 9th of July.
This year’s nominated authors are:
Uwem Akpan (Nigeria) for “My Parents Bedroom” (published in The New Yorker, June 12, 2006)
Monica Arac de Nyeko (Uganda) for “Jambula Tree” (from African Love Stories, Ayebia Clarke Publishing 2006)
E.C Osondu (Nigeria) for “Jimmy Carter’s Eyes” (AGNI Fiction Online 2006)
Henrietta Rose-Innes (South Africa) for “Bad Places” (published in New Contrast vol 31 no4, Spring 2003)
Ada Udechukwu (Nigeria) for “Night Bus” (published in The Atlantic Monthly, August 2006)
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