Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 20th edition of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story, ‘Skinned’.
The prize was launched in 2000 and is awarded annually to an African writer of a short story published in English.
The winner receives £10,000 prize money, and each shortlisted writer also receives £500, The Guardian reports.
Also on the shortlist this year were Meron Hadero (Ethiopia) for ‘The Wall’, Cherrie Kandie (Kenya) for ‘Sew My Mouth’, Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti (Cameroon) for ‘It Takes A Village Some Say’, and Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor (Nigeria) for ‘All Our Lives’.Arimah, winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, has twice been shortlisted for the Caine Prize before in 2016 and 2017.
Arimah has twice been shortlisted for the Caine Prize; first in 2016 for her story "What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky", and in 2017 for "Who Will Greet You At Home".
Congratulations to Lesley Nneka Arimah and the other shortlisted writers.
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