Seventh Street Alchemy by Brian Chikwava is the winner of the 2004
Caine Prize This is the fifth anthology of Caine Prize shortlisted
stories, and the third to include the proceedings of a Caine Prize
African Writers' Workshop. Out of the twelve countries represented
on the five short lists to date, three have been North African,
three East African, three West African and three from southern
Africa. So the prize has a truly pan-African reach. It is widely
referred to now as 'the African Booker' and 'Africa's leading
literary award' - in Africa, in the UK and increasingly in the US.
The impact on the writers' lives has been dramatic. The first two
winners, Leila Aboulela and Helon Habila, have both had outstanding
success with their work since Habila won a Commonwealth prize for
his first novel in 2002 and his second novel is with the
publishers. Leila Aboulela's second novel, Minaret, has just been
published by Bloomsbury. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Caine Prize
shortlist 2002) was on the Orange Prize shortlist for her first
novel, Purple Hibiscus, published by Harper, and it won the
Commonwealth First Book Prize in 2005. appears in an excellent
collection of stories from North Africa, Sardines and Oranges,
published this year by Banipal. And Doreen Baingana, shortlisted in
2004, was given a Writers' Programme Award for her collection,
Tropical Fish - Stories from Entebbe, published this year by
Massachusetts University Press. The 2004 Caine Prize winner is the
Zimbabwean writer, Brian Chikwava. Also on the shortlist, with
Doreen Baingana, were Monica Arac de Nyeko, also from Uganda,
Parselelo Kantai from Kenya and Chika Unigwe from Nigeria. Their
stories appear in this volume. Except for Kantai, who was busy on a
Reuters' fellowship at Oxford University, they participated in this
year's Caine Prize Writers' workshop, as did Charles Mungoshi
(Zimbabwe) and Jackee Batanda (Uganda), who were both highly
commended by the 2004 Prize judges.
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