The 2009 Caine Prize Shortlist
The 2009 shortlist:
Mamle Kabu (Ghana) ‘The End of Skill’ from ‘Dreams, Miracles and Jazz’, published by Picador Africa, Johannesburg 2008
Parselelo Kantai (Kenya) ‘You Wreck Her’, from The St. Petersburg Review, NY 2008
Alistair Morgan (South Africa) ‘Icebergs’, from The Paris Review no. 183, NY 2008
EC Osondu (Nigeria) ‘Waiting‘ from Guernicamag.com, October 2008
Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya) ‘How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile’, from ‘Wasafiri’ No54, Summer 2008, London
This year the judging panel is chaired by New Statesman Chief Sub-Editor Nana Yaa Mensah, and joining her are Professor Jon Cook of the University of East Anglia, award-winning novelist and Georgetown University professor Jennifer Natalya Fink, Guardian journalist and author Hannah Pool, and Mohammed Umar, the Nigerian novelist, journalist and bookseller.
Once again the winner of the £10,000 Caine Prize will be given the opportunity of taking up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC, as a ‘Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence’. The award will cover all travel and living expenses.
Copies of The St. Petersburg Review are available at 57th Street Books.
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