Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing

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A jailer's love poems ghost-written by a prisoner... Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community... Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich... A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry... A sparkling anthology of short stories featuring the first twenty winners of the Caine Prize, Africa's premier literary competition. This prestigious collection reflects the richness and diversity of African experience and features stories from Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda and Sierra Leone. The twenty-year celebratory collection includes: * 'The Museum' - Leila Aboulela (2000, Sudan) * 'Love Poems' - Helon Habila (2001, Nigeria) * 'Discovering Home' - Binyavanga Wainaina (2002, Kenya) * 'Weight of Whispers' - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (2003, Kenya) * 'Seventh Street Alchemy' - Brian Chikwava (2004, Zimbabwe) * 'Monday Morning' - Segun Afolabi (2005, Nigeria) * 'Jungfrau' - Mary Watson (2006, South Africa) * 'Jambula Tree' - Monica Arac de Nyeko (2007, Uganda) * 'Poison' - Henrietta Rose-Innes (2008, South Africa) * 'Waiting' - EC Osundu (2009, Nigeria) * 'Stickfighting Days' - Olufemi Terry (2010, Sierra Leone) * 'Hitting Budapest' - Noviolet Bulawayo (2011, Zimbabwe) * 'Bombay's Republic' - Rotimi Babatunde (2012, Nigeria) * 'Miracle' - Tope Folarin (2013, Nigeria) * 'My Father's Head' - Okwiri Oduor (2014, Kenya) * 'The Sack' - Namwali Serpell (2015, Zambia) * 'Memories We Lost' - Lidudumalingani (2016, South Africa) * 'The Story of the Girl' - Bushra al-Fadil (2017, Sudan) * 'Fanta Blackcurrant' - Makena Onjerika (2018, Kenya) * 'Skinned' - Lesley Nneka Arimah (2019, Nigeria)

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'Africa's most important literary award' - International Herald Tribune; 'Entertaining. Deserves to be widely read' - Sunday Independent, South Africa; 'An admirable and essential gateway to current African fiction' - Booklist

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The Caine Prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition. The Prize is known as the 'African Booker' (and is named after the Booker Prize founder, Michael Caine) and for the past twenty years has showcased writers who go on to successfully achieve great literary success, such as Leila Aboulela, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brian Chikwava and NoViolet Bulawayo.