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Sierra Leone’s Olufemi Terry has been awarded the 2010 Caine Prize for African Writing, taking home £10,000.
Terry was awarded for his story Stickfighting Days from Chimurenga vol 12/13, Cape Town at a ceremony at the Bodleian Library in Oxford last night (5th July).
Chair of judges, Economist literary editor Fiammetta Rocco, said “ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative, Olufemi Terry’s Stickfighting Days presents a heroic culture that is Homeric in its scale and conception. The execution of this story is so tight and the presentation so cinematic, it confirms Olufemi Terry as a talent with an enormous future.”
Terry also wins the opportunity to take up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC.