THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING 2015 - 13.07.14
The Caine Prize Readings are an opportunity to hear the best in new African fiction.
Join this year's five shortlisted authors as they read and discuss their work. The 2015 shortlist is as follows:
- Segun Afolabi (Nigeria) – The Folded Leaf
Elnathan John (Nigeria) – Flying
FT Kola (South Africa) – A Party for the Colonel
Masande Ntshanga (South Africa) – Space
Namwali Serpell (Zambia) – The Sack
The prize has brought wide recognition to writers including NoViolet Bulawayo, Helon Habila, Mary Watson and EC Osondu, and continues to showcase the best emerging writing from different parts of the African continent.
Award-winning author Zoë Wicomb chairs this year's judging panel and is joined by television and radio journalist Zeinab Badawi; Indian author and Man Booker Prize-shortlistee Neel Mukherjee; Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgetown Cóilín Parsons and the winner of the 2004 Caine Prize; Brian Chikwava.
Zoë Wicomb described the shortlist as 'an exciting crop of well-crafted stories... Understatement and the unspoken prevail: hints of an orphan's identity bring poignant understanding of his world; the reader is slowly and expertly guided to awareness of a narrator's blindness; there is delicate allusion to homosexual love; a disfigured human body is encountered in relation to adolescent escapades; a nameless wife's insecurities barely mask her understanding of injustice; and, we are given a flash of insight into dark passions that rise out of a surreal resistance culture.'
The winner is announced in Oxford on Monday 6 July.
