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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 |
The 2009 shortlist comprised the following (click on a story to read it):
copyright 2009 The Caine Prize