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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins the 2012 Caine Prize
the tanjara Blog
Rotimi Babatunde of Nigeria was last night awarded the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for his short story Bombay's Republic first published in 'Mirabilia Review' Vol. 3.9 (Lagos, 2011). Babatunde is the fourth Nigerian to have won the prize in its 13-year existence; Nigeria has produced more Caine winners than any other African country.
Babatunde noted that most African soldiers were "quite proud to fight for the empire". But for Bombay "there was a slight shift, I think he was watching more, observing, he was neutral - by the end of the war he knew where he was going." (There is an interview with Babatunde on his story on Pen International - Babatunde is among other things the chair of Nigeria's PEN Writers in Prison Committee).
He is currently taking part in a collaboratively produced piece at the Royal Court and the Young Vic as part of World Stages for a World City. The Royal Court explains: "The journey of Yoruba culture, tradition and religion, as it moved through slavery from West Africa to the Americas, is one of the most powerful stories of exploitation, resistance and survival that has never been told.
The other four shortlisted writers for the 2012 Caine Prize were Billy Kahora of Kenya for Urban Zoning; Stanley Kenani of Malawi for Love on Trial; Melissa Tandiwe Myambo of Zimbabwe for La Salle de Départ; and Constance Myburgh (the pen name of Jenna Bass) of South Africa for Hunter Emmanuel.
The chair of this year's judges, Bernardine Evaristo, is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and verse fiction. Her new novel, Mr Loverman, will be published by Penguin in 2013. A literary critic who teaches creative writing at Brunel University, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Evaristo's fellow judges were cultural journalist Maya Jaggi; Zimbabwean poet, songwriter and writer Chirikure Chirikure; Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC Samantha Pinto; and the Sudanese CNN television correspondent Nima Elbagir.
The chair of the 2012 judges Bernardine Evaristo said on announcing this year's shortlist: "I’m proud to announce that this shortlist shows the range of African fiction beyond the more stereotypical narratives. These stories have an originality and facility with language that made them stand out. We’ve chosen a bravely provocative homosexual story set in Malawi; a Nigerian soldier fighting in the Burma Campaign of WW2; a hardboiled noir tale involving a disembodied leg; a drunk young Kenyan who outwits his irate employers; and the tension between Senegalese siblings over migration and family responsibility.”
Stanley Kenani: "It's one thing to announce and pass a law, it's another thing to change the mentality," to repeal the laws banning homosexuality
Last year the Caine Prize was won by Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. She has subsequently been awarded the highly regarded two-year Stegner Writing Fellowship at Stanford University, in the US and her debut novel, We Need New Names, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in North America and Chatto and Windus in the UK.
Previous winners are Sudan’s Leila Aboulela (2000), Nigerian Helon Habila (2001), Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina (2002), Kenyan Yvonne Owuor (2003), Zimbabwean Brian Chikwava (2004), Nigerian Segun Afolabi (2005), South African Mary Watson (2006), Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko (2007), South African Henrietta Rose-Innes (2008), Nigerian EC Osondu (2009) and Sierra Leonean Olufemi Terry (2010).
Zimbabwean writer Melissa Tandiwe Myambo La Salle de Départ is set in Senegal: Jacaranda Journals
'Africa Writes'
Black Book News Blog
London Afro-Caribbean Book Club
Tricia Wombell: recorded on her blog and to discuss the five stories
Rotimi Babatunde of Nigeria was last night awarded the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for his short story Bombay's Republic first published in 'Mirabilia Review' Vol. 3.9 (Lagos, 2011). Babatunde is the fourth Nigerian to have won the prize in its 13-year existence; Nigeria has produced more Caine winners than any other African country.
Babatunde noted that most African soldiers were "quite proud to fight for the empire". But for Bombay "there was a slight shift, I think he was watching more, observing, he was neutral - by the end of the war he knew where he was going." (There is an interview with Babatunde on his story on Pen International - Babatunde is among other things the chair of Nigeria's PEN Writers in Prison Committee).
He is currently taking part in a collaboratively produced piece at the Royal Court and the Young Vic as part of World Stages for a World City. The Royal Court explains: "The journey of Yoruba culture, tradition and religion, as it moved through slavery from West Africa to the Americas, is one of the most powerful stories of exploitation, resistance and survival that has never been told.
The other four shortlisted writers for the 2012 Caine Prize were Billy Kahora of Kenya for Urban Zoning; Stanley Kenani of Malawi for Love on Trial; Melissa Tandiwe Myambo of Zimbabwe for La Salle de Départ; and Constance Myburgh (the pen name of Jenna Bass) of South Africa for Hunter Emmanuel.
The chair of this year's judges, Bernardine Evaristo, is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and verse fiction. Her new novel, Mr Loverman, will be published by Penguin in 2013. A literary critic who teaches creative writing at Brunel University, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
Evaristo's fellow judges were cultural journalist Maya Jaggi; Zimbabwean poet, songwriter and writer Chirikure Chirikure; Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC Samantha Pinto; and the Sudanese CNN television correspondent Nima Elbagir.
The chair of the 2012 judges Bernardine Evaristo said on announcing this year's shortlist: "I’m proud to announce that this shortlist shows the range of African fiction beyond the more stereotypical narratives. These stories have an originality and facility with language that made them stand out. We’ve chosen a bravely provocative homosexual story set in Malawi; a Nigerian soldier fighting in the Burma Campaign of WW2; a hardboiled noir tale involving a disembodied leg; a drunk young Kenyan who outwits his irate employers; and the tension between Senegalese siblings over migration and family responsibility.”
Stanley Kenani: "It's one thing to announce and pass a law, it's another thing to change the mentality," to repeal the laws banning homosexuality
" He admitted he had long ago been anti-gay and had "agreed with Robert
Mugabe's assertion that gays are Western dogs and pigs. But my views
have evolved... because over the years I've made friends with people who
are gay, and I've got some of the strongest friendships with them, and
they are as normal as everybody else."
- now Nigeria won @CainePrize 4 times -double S Africa,Kenya & Zimbabwe 2X each.Uganda,Sierra Leone,Sudan once each. Just 7 countries in all. about 4 hours ago
- Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins 2012 Caine Prize - 4th win in 13 years for Nigeria - photos & blog post http://t.co/3t5sCe2j about 4 hours ago
Last year the Caine Prize was won by Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo. She has subsequently been awarded the highly regarded two-year Stegner Writing Fellowship at Stanford University, in the US and her debut novel, We Need New Names, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in North America and Chatto and Windus in the UK.
Previous winners are Sudan’s Leila Aboulela (2000), Nigerian Helon Habila (2001), Kenyan Binyavanga Wainaina (2002), Kenyan Yvonne Owuor (2003), Zimbabwean Brian Chikwava (2004), Nigerian Segun Afolabi (2005), South African Mary Watson (2006), Ugandan Monica Arac de Nyeko (2007), South African Henrietta Rose-Innes (2008), Nigerian EC Osondu (2009) and Sierra Leonean Olufemi Terry (2010).
Zimbabwean writer Melissa Tandiwe Myambo La Salle de Départ is set in Senegal: Jacaranda Journals
'Africa Writes'
Black Book News Blog
London Afro-Caribbean Book Club
Tricia Wombell: recorded on her blog and to discuss the five stories
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