10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing: Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190652324X ISBN 13: 9781906523244

Publisher: New Internationalist, 2009

Synopsis

Celebrating ten years of the leading literary prize for African fiction (dubbed "The African Booker"), 10 Years of the Caine Prize brings together the ten winning stories along with a story each from the four African winners of the Booker Prize: Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Ben Okri.

The ten winners:

Leila Aboulela for The Museum
Helon Habila for Love Poems
Binyavanga Wainaina for Discovering Home
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor for Weight of Whispers
Brian Chikwava for Seventh Street Alchemy
S.A. Afolabi for Monday Morning
Mary Watson for Jungfrau
Monica Arac de Nyeko for Jambula Tree
Henrietta Rose-Innes for Poison

(The tenth winner is to be announced and published in the New Internationalist in July 2009.)

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About this edition

• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 190652324X
• ISBN 13: 9781906523244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228
• Editor: The Caine Prize For African Writing