'African Booker' prize shortlist announced
The five finalists for this years £10,000 Caine prize have been revealed, providing a 'portrait of today's African short story'
From a comic tale about a Botswanan bachelor who "made a vocation of troubling married women" to the distressing story of a Ugandan girl forced to become a child soldier, the shortlist for this year's Caine prize provides "a portrait of today's African short story", according to chair of judges Hisham Matar.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 9 May, 2011
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