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2nd December 2008

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SA's Rose-Innes wins Caine Prize

08.07.08

South African novelist Henrietta Rose-Innes was named the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She won the award for her story "Poison", which was published in the anthology Africa Pens, and takes a £10,000 prize, reports the BBC.

The other four writers on the shortlist were Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Ghana), Stanley Onjezani Kenani (Malawi), and Uzor Maxim Uzoatu (Nigeria) and Gill Schierhout (South Africa).

The prize, given for a short story, can be awarded to African writers who have published fiction within Africa or elsewhere in the world.

BBC

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