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Winner of The Caine Prize for African Writing Announced
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Mary Watson from South Africa has won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss, Kwela Books, 2004.
The Chair of the Judges, Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, announced the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 10 July) in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
"It is a powerfully written narrative that works skilfully through a child's imagination to suggest a world of insights about familial and social relationships in the new South Africa", said Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
"It is superbly written and does what a short story should do, by leaving spaces around its narrative in which readers can enter again and again".
Mary Watson was born and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her Masters degree in Creative Writing under André P Brink in 2001 and studied Film and TV Production at Bristol University in 2003.
She lectures in Film Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she received a Meritorious Publication Award for her collection of stories, Moss. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as on a collaborative novel with a group of other South African writers.
Also on the shortlist were:
Sefi Atta (Nigeria), for The Last Trip, from Chimurenga 8, 2006
Darrel Bristow-Bovey (South Africa), for A Joburg story, from African Compass * New Writing from Southern Africa 2005, Spearhead, 2005
Muthoni Garland (Kenya), for Tracking the Scent of My Mother, from Seventh Street Alchemy: A
Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, Jacana Media, 2005
Laila Lalami (Morocco), for The Fanatic, from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
Last year's Prize was awarded to S.A.Afolabi from Nigeria for Monday Morning from Wasafiri,
(2004). His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, has just been published by Jonathan Cape and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007.
Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, this year's Chair of the Judges, is a Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
She has written several books on West Indian and African literature and forthcoming books include
History and Imagination in African Literature. She has previously chaired the judges for the Macmillan Prize for African Writing and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). The other judges are Aminatta Forna, broadcaster, journalist and author of The Devil that Danced on the Water; Maya Jaggi, critic and arts journalist who contributes regularly to The
Guardian and has considerable experience of profiling African writers; and Dr Mpalive Msiska, Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, whose research interests include the problem of identity in post-colonial African theory and literature.
Notes for Editors:
The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing, 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. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer,
published in English (whether in Africa or elsewhere), with an indicative length of 3,000 to 15,000 words. An "African writer" will normally be taken to mean someone who was born
in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African, and whose work has reflected that cultural background.
The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and J M Coetzee, are Patrons of The Caine Prize. Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is President of the Council and Jonathan Taylor is the Chairman.
For information about the distribution of the book
Mary Watson's Moss,
ISBN 0795701810, GBP 9.95
is distributed by Central Books Ltd,
Visit
www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html
Caine Prize short story books,
and the lists of Jacana, Kwela and Spearhead,
including the books mentioned below published by these publishers
are available from Central Books.
For a specialist supplier of all books on Africa, visit www.africabookcentre.com
Information on Moss and the two latest Caine
Prize short story anthologies is attached.
For further information visit
www.africabookcentre.com or www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html and search for MOSS, CAINE etc.
For further information, photos or to arrange an interview with Mary Watson, please contact:
Harriet Pearce Willis
Raitt Orr & Associates Ltd
Tel: 020 7222 5479
Fax: 020 7222 5480
E-mail: [email protected]
Or
Nick Elam
The Caine Prize for African Writing
Tel: 020 7376 0440
Fax: 020 7938 3728
E-mail: [email protected]
"It is a powerfully written narrative that works skilfully through a child's imagination to suggest a world of insights about familial and social relationships in the new South Africa", said Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
"It is superbly written and does what a short story should do, by leaving spaces around its narrative in which readers can enter again and again".
Mary Watson was born and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her Masters degree in Creative Writing under André P Brink in 2001 and studied Film and TV Production at Bristol University in 2003.
She lectures in Film Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she received a Meritorious Publication Award for her collection of stories, Moss. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as on a collaborative novel with a group of other South African writers.
Also on the shortlist were:
Sefi Atta (Nigeria), for The Last Trip, from Chimurenga 8, 2006
Darrel Bristow-Bovey (South Africa), for A Joburg story, from African Compass * New Writing from Southern Africa 2005, Spearhead, 2005
Muthoni Garland (Kenya), for Tracking the Scent of My Mother, from Seventh Street Alchemy: A
Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, Jacana Media, 2005
Laila Lalami (Morocco), for The Fanatic, from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
Last year's Prize was awarded to S.A.Afolabi from Nigeria for Monday Morning from Wasafiri,
(2004). His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, has just been published by Jonathan Cape and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007.
Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, this year's Chair of the Judges, is a Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
She has written several books on West Indian and African literature and forthcoming books include
History and Imagination in African Literature. She has previously chaired the judges for the Macmillan Prize for African Writing and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). The other judges are Aminatta Forna, broadcaster, journalist and author of The Devil that Danced on the Water; Maya Jaggi, critic and arts journalist who contributes regularly to The
Guardian and has considerable experience of profiling African writers; and Dr Mpalive Msiska, Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, whose research interests include the problem of identity in post-colonial African theory and literature.
Notes for Editors:
The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing, 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. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer,
published in English (whether in Africa or elsewhere), with an indicative length of 3,000 to 15,000 words. An "African writer" will normally be taken to mean someone who was born
in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African, and whose work has reflected that cultural background.
The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and J M Coetzee, are Patrons of The Caine Prize. Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is President of the Council and Jonathan Taylor is the Chairman.
For information about the distribution of the book
Mary Watson's Moss,
ISBN 0795701810, GBP 9.95
is distributed by Central Books Ltd,
Visit
www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html
Caine Prize short story books,
and the lists of Jacana, Kwela and Spearhead,
including the books mentioned below published by these publishers
are available from Central Books.
For a specialist supplier of all books on Africa, visit www.africabookcentre.com
Information on Moss and the two latest Caine
Prize short story anthologies is attached.
For further information visit
www.africabookcentre.com or www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html and search for MOSS, CAINE etc.
For further information, photos or to arrange an interview with Mary Watson, please contact:
Harriet Pearce Willis
Raitt Orr & Associates Ltd
Tel: 020 7222 5479
Fax: 020 7222 5480
E-mail: [email protected]
Or
Nick Elam
The Caine Prize for African Writing
Tel: 020 7376 0440
Fax: 020 7938 3728
E-mail: [email protected]
English
Mary Watson from South Africa has won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss, Kwela Books, 2004.
The Chair of the Judges, Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, announced the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 10 July) in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
"It is a powerfully written narrative that works skilfully through a child's imagination to suggest a world of insights about familial and social relationships in the new South Africa", said Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
"It is superbly written and does what a short story should do, by leaving spaces around its narrative in which readers can enter again and again".
Mary Watson was born and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her Masters degree in Creative Writing under André P Brink in 2001 and studied Film and TV Production at Bristol University in 2003.
She lectures in Film Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she received a Meritorious Publication Award for her collection of stories, Moss. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as on a collaborative novel with a group of other South African writers.
Also on the shortlist were:
Sefi Atta (Nigeria), for The Last Trip, from Chimurenga 8, 2006
Darrel Bristow-Bovey (South Africa), for A Joburg story, from African Compass * New Writing from Southern Africa 2005, Spearhead, 2005
Muthoni Garland (Kenya), for Tracking the Scent of My Mother, from Seventh Street Alchemy: A
Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, Jacana Media, 2005
Laila Lalami (Morocco), for The Fanatic, from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
Last year's Prize was awarded to S.A.Afolabi from Nigeria for Monday Morning from Wasafiri,
(2004). His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, has just been published by Jonathan Cape and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007.
Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, this year's Chair of the Judges, is a Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
She has written several books on West Indian and African literature and forthcoming books include
History and Imagination in African Literature. She has previously chaired the judges for the Macmillan Prize for African Writing and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). The other judges are Aminatta Forna, broadcaster, journalist and author of The Devil that Danced on the Water; Maya Jaggi, critic and arts journalist who contributes regularly to The
Guardian and has considerable experience of profiling African writers; and Dr Mpalive Msiska, Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, whose research interests include the problem of identity in post-colonial African theory and literature.
Notes for Editors:
The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing, 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. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer,
published in English (whether in Africa or elsewhere), with an indicative length of 3,000 to 15,000 words. An "African writer" will normally be taken to mean someone who was born
in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African, and whose work has reflected that cultural background.
The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and J M Coetzee, are Patrons of The Caine Prize. Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is President of the Council and Jonathan Taylor is the Chairman.
For information about the distribution of the book
Mary Watson's Moss,
ISBN 0795701810, GBP 9.95
is distributed by Central Books Ltd,
Visit
www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html
Caine Prize short story books,
and the lists of Jacana, Kwela and Spearhead,
including the books mentioned below published by these publishers
are available from Central Books.
For a specialist supplier of all books on Africa, visit www.africabookcentre.com
Information on Moss and the two latest Caine
Prize short story anthologies is attached.
For further information visit
www.africabookcentre.com or www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html and search for MOSS, CAINE etc.
For further information, photos or to arrange an interview with Mary Watson, please contact:
Harriet Pearce Willis
Raitt Orr & Associates Ltd
Tel: 020 7222 5479
Fax: 020 7222 5480
E-mail: [email protected]
Or
Nick Elam
The Caine Prize for African Writing
Tel: 020 7376 0440
Fax: 020 7938 3728
E-mail: [email protected]
"It is a powerfully written narrative that works skilfully through a child's imagination to suggest a world of insights about familial and social relationships in the new South Africa", said Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
"It is superbly written and does what a short story should do, by leaving spaces around its narrative in which readers can enter again and again".
Mary Watson was born and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her Masters degree in Creative Writing under André P Brink in 2001 and studied Film and TV Production at Bristol University in 2003.
She lectures in Film Studies at the University of Cape Town, where she received a Meritorious Publication Award for her collection of stories, Moss. She is currently working on her first novel, as well as on a collaborative novel with a group of other South African writers.
Also on the shortlist were:
Sefi Atta (Nigeria), for The Last Trip, from Chimurenga 8, 2006
Darrel Bristow-Bovey (South Africa), for A Joburg story, from African Compass * New Writing from Southern Africa 2005, Spearhead, 2005
Muthoni Garland (Kenya), for Tracking the Scent of My Mother, from Seventh Street Alchemy: A
Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, Jacana Media, 2005
Laila Lalami (Morocco), for The Fanatic, from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005
Last year's Prize was awarded to S.A.Afolabi from Nigeria for Monday Morning from Wasafiri,
(2004). His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, has just been published by Jonathan Cape and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007.
Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe, this year's Chair of the Judges, is a Senior Lecturer in African Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
She has written several books on West Indian and African literature and forthcoming books include
History and Imagination in African Literature. She has previously chaired the judges for the Macmillan Prize for African Writing and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa Region). The other judges are Aminatta Forna, broadcaster, journalist and author of The Devil that Danced on the Water; Maya Jaggi, critic and arts journalist who contributes regularly to The
Guardian and has considerable experience of profiling African writers; and Dr Mpalive Msiska, Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, whose research interests include the problem of identity in post-colonial African theory and literature.
Notes for Editors:
The Caine Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing, 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. The Prize is awarded for a short story by an African writer,
published in English (whether in Africa or elsewhere), with an indicative length of 3,000 to 15,000 words. An "African writer" will normally be taken to mean someone who was born
in Africa, or who is a national of an African country, or whose parents are African, and whose work has reflected that cultural background.
The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for
Literature, Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and J M Coetzee, are Patrons of The Caine Prize. Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is President of the Council and Jonathan Taylor is the Chairman.
For information about the distribution of the book
Mary Watson's Moss,
ISBN 0795701810, GBP 9.95
is distributed by Central Books Ltd,
Visit
www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html
Caine Prize short story books,
and the lists of Jacana, Kwela and Spearhead,
including the books mentioned below published by these publishers
are available from Central Books.
For a specialist supplier of all books on Africa, visit www.africabookcentre.com
Information on Moss and the two latest Caine
Prize short story anthologies is attached.
For further information visit
www.africabookcentre.com or www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html and search for MOSS, CAINE etc.
For further information, photos or to arrange an interview with Mary Watson, please contact:
Harriet Pearce Willis
Raitt Orr & Associates Ltd
Tel: 020 7222 5479
Fax: 020 7222 5480
E-mail: [email protected]
Or
Nick Elam
The Caine Prize for African Writing
Tel: 020 7376 0440
Fax: 020 7938 3728
E-mail: [email protected]
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