A big congratulations to Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor for winning the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing!!
Okwiri Oduor is the 15th winner of the Caine Prize, which is recognized as Africa’s leading literary award for short stories.
The winner was announced last night at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England for all the shortlisted candidates.
Okwiri Oduor won the £10,000 prize for her short story, ‘My Father’s Head’. In the short story, the narrator deals with the loss of her father and tries to recollect buried memories of him. Even though the story is laden with issues of loneliness, mourning and sadness, its actually quite moving and has a courageous outlook on loss/death. Oduor is currently working on her debut novel and I can’t wait to read more of her work in the near future!
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Congrats to the winner 🙂
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