PREVIOUS WINNERS
- 2009: E C Osondu
- 2008: Henrietta Rose-Innes
- 2007: Monica Arac de Nyeko
- 2006: Mary Watson
- 2005: SA Afolabi
- 2004: Brian Chikwava
- 2003: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
- 2002: Binyavanga Wainaina
- 2001: Helon Habila
- 2000: Leila Aboulela
2009 winner: E C OSONDU
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This year's winner is E C Osondu from Nigeria, for ‘Waiting’ from Guernicamag.com.
Nana Yaa Mensah said “a tour de force describing, from a child’s point of view, the dislocating experience of being a displaced person. It is powerfully written with not an ounce of fat on it – and deeply moving.”
Read E C Osondu's winning story here |
2009 SHORTLIST
The 2009 shortlist comprised the following (click on a story to read it):
- Mamle Kabu (Ghana) ‘The End of Skill’ from ‘Dreams, Miracles and Jazz’, published by Picador Africa, Johannesburg 2008
- Parselelo Kantai (Kenya) ‘You Wreck Her’, from the St Petersburg Review, NY 2008
- Alistair Morgan (South Africa) ‘Icebergs’, from The Paris Review no. 183, NY 2008
- EC Osondu (Nigeria) ‘Waiting' from Guernicamag.com, October 2008
- Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya) ‘How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile’, from ‘Wasafiri’ No54, Summer 2008, London
copyright 2009 The Caine Prize