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10 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing: Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri
Contributor(s): The Caine Prize for African Writing (Editor)
ISBN: 190652324X     ISBN-13: 9781906523244
Publisher: New Internationalist
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2009
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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.)

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | African
- Travel | Africa - General
Dewey: 823.010
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 228 pages
 
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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.)