PRESS
This is a small selection of coverage of the Caine Prize and its winners. For more details please contact jenny@raittorr.co.uk.
2012: Press
- AUDIO: 'African Booker' Defies Image Of Tragic Continent (NPR, July 5 2012)
- Out of Africa — and coming to a bokshop near you (The Times, July 3 2012)
- Babatunde wins Caine Prize (The Bookseller)
- Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine prize for African writing (The Guardian)
- Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine writing prize (BBC News Africa)
- Nigerian author wins Caine Prize with 'darkly humorous' prose (CNN)
- Nigerian writer wins Caine Prize for African Fiction (Mail & Guardian)
- Babtunde’s “Bombay Republic” wins 2012 Caine Prize (Business Day)
- Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine Prize for African Writing (CBC News)
- Nigerian Writer Wins Africa’s Highest Literary Award (Atlanta Blackstar)
- Nigerian Writer Wins Caine Prize (PM News)
- Rotimi Babatunde wins Caine Prize for African Writing (Vanguard)
- 'Original' Caine Prize shortlist revealed (The Bookseller)
- 'African Booker' shortlist offers an alternative view of continent (The Guardian)
- A Blagger's Guide To: The Caine Prize The No 1 African Short Story Competition (The Independent on Sunday)
- Stanley Kenani speaks on his Caine Prize nomination Malawian writers should look beyond confines of our border (Malawi Voice)
- Caine Prize shortlist announced (The Zimbabwean)
2012: Audio
2011: Press
- Zimbabwean woman wins top writing prize for tale of starving children (CNN online)
- Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize (BBC online)
- NoViolet Bulawayo wins 'African Booker' (Guardian)
- The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011 – review (Guardian)
- Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo scoops Caine Prize (BBC network Africa)
- Small nuggets of African Gold (The Independent)
- To See the Mountain and Other Stories (The Times)
- Zimbabwe author wins African Caine Prize (Daily Nation)
2011: Audio
- Zimbabwean woman wins top writing prize for tale of starving children (CNN online)
- Caine Prize special (The Strand BBC World Service)
- Henry Bonsu interviews NoViolet Bulawayo (The Africa Channel)
2010: Press
- Sierra Leonean wins Caine Prize (New African, PDF 1.30Mb)
- Olufemi Terry wins Caine Prize for African Writing (Guardian)
- Judging the Caine Prize (Granta)
- Interviews with Ken Barris and Alex Smith (the South African)
- Sierra Leone's Olufemi Terry wins Caine Prize (BBC Online)
- Olufemi Terry's accolade inspires Sierra Leonean fiction writers (Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone)
2010: Audio
- 19 August 2010: Interview with Caine Prize winner Helon Habila (Open Book, BBC Radio 4, 1:00 min)
- 3 June 2010: Olufemi Terry interview (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 13:18 mins)
- 10 June 2010: Ken Barris interview (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 13:00 mins)
- 17 June: Namwali Serpell interview (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 12:32 mins)
- 21 June: Alex Smith interview (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 6:20 mins)
- 29 June 2010: Lily Mabura interview (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 13:18 mins)
- 6 July 2010: Olufemi Terry interview as the winner (The Strand, BBC World Serivce, 7:00 mins)
2009
- EC Osondu takes £10,000 'African Booker' (Guardian)
- Short story on displacement wins Caine Prize for African Writing (Saudi Gazette)
- Listen to all the voices of Africa (Independent)
2008
- 'I had an inkling I might win' - Henrietta Rose-Innes interviewed by the Guardian
- 'Apocalyptic' tale wins SA prize (BBC online)
- Unlike lightning, Poison has struck twice (Mail & Guardian South Africa)
2007
- 'Taboo' story takes African prize (BBC Online)
- Love story wins 'African Booker' (Guardian)
- Ugandan Writer's 'Jambula Tree' Wins Caine Prize (Washington Post)
2006
- A prize lauding African perspectives: Arts & Leisure, International Herald Tribune (external link)
- A continent is illuminated: The Guardian (external link)/li>
- A continent learns to tell its story at last: Times Online (external link)
2005
- Afolabi wins 'African Booker': The Guardian (external link)
- Cross-continental shortlist for 'African Booker': The Guardian (external link)
- Keep the faith - an interview with Leila Aboulela: The Observer (external link)
- Caine prize winner, Brian Chikwava, selects his top 10 books: The Guardian (external link)
2004
- Shortlist announced for 'African Booker': The Guardian (external link)
- 'Telling a story is not enough... there must be a point of view': The Guardian (external link)
2003
- Kenya celebrates Caine prize double: The Guardian (external link)
- African writing prize goes to Kenya: BBC News (external link)
2002
- Kenyan wins African writing prize (BBC Online)
- Caine Prize 2002: Top award goes to Kenya's Wainaina (Allbusiness.com)
2001
- 'To finish my book was an act of will': The Guardian (external link)
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