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Granta deputy editor Ellah Allfrey and author Aminatta Forna are to join the judging panel for this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.
Chair of the panel will be Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, with Georgetown University professor of English literature Henry Schwarz and publisher, film and travel writer Vicky Unwin completing the line-up.
A shortlist for the prize, which this year received 126 entries from 17 African countries, will be revealed in May. The winning story will be announced at a dinner at the Bodleian Library in Oxford on 11th July.
The annual prize is named after the late Sir Michael Caine, former chairman of Booker plc and chairman of the Booker Prize management committee for nearly 25 years. It is awarded for a short story by an African writer published in English.
Last year's winner was Sierra Leonean writer Olufemi Terry.