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Article: Caine Prize for African Writing is won by Nigerian author E. C. Osondu for Waiting.(2009 Caine Prize for African Writing)(Brief article)
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- July 7, 2009
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The 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing has been presented to Nigerian author E. C. Osondu, for his story about displaced people, titled Waiting, which was published in Guernicamag.com.
Osondu received the GBP10,000 prize at a celebratory dinner held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford on Monday. The award also includes travel and living expenses for a month long stay at Georgetown University, Washington DC, as a 'Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence'.
The annual Caine Prize, known as the African Booker, is named after the late Sir Michael Caine, the former chairman of Booker plc and ...