Twenty years of the Caine Prize for African writing
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Published
North Hampton, Massachusetts: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781623719357, 1623719356

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First published in 2020 in the USA by Interlink Books.
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Published by arrangement with New Internationalist Publications, Ltd., Oxford, UK and the Caine Prize fro African Writing, London, IK.
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The story of the girl whose birds flew away translated from the Arabic by Max Shmookler.
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"Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Caine Prize for African Writing, this collection showcases all twenty prize-winning short stories - each with its own unique take on modern African life. A jailer's love poems ghost-written by a prisoner... Love blossoming between two girls despite the horror of their community... Street kids stick-fighting or stealing guavas from the rich... A dystopian world where women must go naked until they marry... Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Caine Prize for African Writing - often referred to as the 'African Booker Prize' - this collection showcases all twenty prize-winning short stories, each with its own unique take on modern African life. As Ben Okri says, in his special introduction for this anthology: 'Whether in the cities or in the villages, whether it is in East or West or South or North Africa, something pulses through the varied and oddly unified life of the continent that lends itself to the framing that the short story excels at. Whether it is the celebration, the marketplace, the bus stop, the ritual, the family, the funeral, comradeship, grisly death, sexual awakening, the short story catches the experience, holds it at an angle, illuminates it."--Back cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Okri, B., Aboulela, L., Habila, H., Wainaina, B., Owuor, Y. A., Chikwava, B., Afolabi, S., Watson, M., Arac de Nyeko, M., Rose-Innes, H., Osondu, E. C., Terry, O., Bulawayo, N., Babatunde, R., Folarin, T., Oduor, O., Serpell, N., Mqombothi, L., al-Fadil, B., Shmookler, M., Onjerika, M., & Arimah, L. N. (2020). Twenty years of the Caine Prize for African writing . Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ben Okri et al.. 2020. Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ben Okri et al.. Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Okri, Ben, et al. Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2020.

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