EC Osondu Wins the 10th Caine Prize for African Writing
Nigeria’s EC Osondu has won the 10th Caine Prize, the “African Booker” that’s worth £10 000, for his short story, “Waiting”, originally published in Guernicamag.com. The gong passes to him from Henrietta Rose-Innes, last year’s winner.
Osondu was announced as the winner at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK, this evening. Caine Prize judges’ chair Nana Yaa Mensah called the story “a tour de force describing, from a child’s point of view, the dislocating experience of being a displaced person. It is powerfully written with not an ounce of fat on it – and deeply moving.”
Osondu was previously shortlisted for the award in 2007, for his story “Jimmy Carter’s Eyes”, which was anthologised in that year’s Caine Prize collection, Jambula Tree and Other Stories.
Osondu’s fellow shortlistees included South Africa’s Alistair Morgan; find the complete shortlist here.
Osondu wins more than cash: he will now also have the chance to take up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC USA, as a “Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence”. We gather from his Facebook page that Osondu resides in New York state, USA; given that he’s a “fan” of the Syracuse Orange, we may also safely assume that he’s associated with Syracuse University.
Source: http://news.book.co.za
Osondu’story “Waiting” is a great story, and that is why I have reviewed it in the new issue of Sentinel Literary Quarterly. You can read the review at
E C Osondu’s Waiting
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/slq2.4/essays/nnorom.azuonye.html
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