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Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story Hitting Budapest.
Bulawayo was awarded the £10,000 prize by chair of judges, author Hisham Matar, at a ceremony at the Bodleian Library in Oxford yesterday evening (11th July). Her story was published in the Boston Review, Vol 35, no 6 - Nov/Dec 2010.
Matar said: “The language of Hitting Budapest crackles . . . This is a story with moral power and weight, it has the artistry to refrain from moral commentary. NoViolet Bulawayo is a writer who takes delight in language.”
Bulawayo will also be given the opportunity to take up a month's residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC as a Caine Prize/Georgetown University writer-in-residence.