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The Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2017 de Lizzy Attree

The Goddess of Mtwara and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2017

Editat de Lizzy Attree
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2017
Now entering its eighteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection brings together seventeen short stories--the five 2017 shortlisted stories, along with stories written at the 2017 Caine Prize Writers' Workshop that took place in Tanzania. The collection showcases young writers who go on to publish successful novels, for instance: Leila Aboulela, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Brian Chikwava and Helon Habila. The shortlisted writers include: - God's Children are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu (Nigeria) - The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away by Bushra al-Fadil (Sudan), translated by Max Shmookler - Bush Baby by Chikodili Emelumadu (Nigeria) - Who Will Greet You at Home by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria) - The Virus by Magogodi oa Mphela Makhene (South Africa) The collection also includes stories written by the following authors at the workshop that took place in Tanzania: Last year's winner, Lidudumalingani (South Africa), Abdul Adan (Somalia/Kenya), Lesley Nneka Arimah (Nigeria) Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe), Cheryl Ntumy (Botswana/Ghana), Daniel Rafiki (Rwanda), Darla Rudakubana (Rwanda), Agazit Abate (Ethiopia).
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ISBN-13: 9781566560344
ISBN-10: 1566560349
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 126 x 193 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Interlink Publishing Group Inc

Notă biografică

Dr. Lizzy Attree is co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London, and she is the author of Blood on the Page (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), a collection of interviews with the first African writers from Zimbabwe and South Africa to write about HIV and AIDS. She is a director on the board of Short Story Day Africa and was director of the Caine Prize from 2014 to 2018. She also sits on the board of Writivism, which is part of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). In 2015, she taught African literature at Kings College London, and she will teach world literature at Richmond, the American International University in London, in the autumn. She has just completed an Arts Council–funded project on African footballers at Chelsea and Arsenal, and her associated anthology of poems, Thinking Outside the Penalty Box, was published by the Poetry Society.