Caine Prize for African Writing 7th African Collection
The Caine prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awarded to a work (a short story) by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Each year the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume.
The 7th winner is Mary Watson from South Africa for Jungfrau. Chairman of the Judges, Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe said of Jungfrau, “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. 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”.
