NIGERIA’S Rotimi Babatunde has won the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing, which is rated as one of the continent’s leading literary award.He clinched it with his short story titled: “Bombay’s Republic,”
The Chair of Judges Bernardine Evaristo on Monday announced Babatunde as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Evaristo said: “’Bombay’s Republic” vividly describes the story of a Nigerian soldier fighting in the Burma campaign of World War Two. It is ambitious, darkly humorous and in soaring, scorching prose exposes the exploitative nature of the colonial project and the psychology of Independence.”
Three Nigerian writers have won the prize. First was Helon Habila in 2001, with his winning story, “Prison Stories” republished as “Waiting for an Angel”; Segun Afolabi won with “Monday Morning from Wasafiri” in 2005 while E.C. Osondo in 2009 won the award with the story “Waiting.”
Babatunde’s fiction and poems have been published in Africa, Europe and America in journals, which include Die Aussenseite des Elementes and Fiction on the Web and in anthologies including Little Drops and A Volcano of Voices.
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