Nigeria’s Rotimi Babatunde is this year’s winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Babatunde was picked from a shortlist of five writers who included Zimbabwe’s Melissa Tandiwe Myambo for her critically acclaimed short story, La Salle de Départ.
Others on the short list included Constance Myburgh (South Africa), Stanley Kenani (Malawi) and Billy Kahora (Kenya).
The winner was announced earlier this evening in Oxford, UK.
The US$10 000 prize is Africa’s richest prize for short story writing and was first awarded in 2000, at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2000 in Harare.