July 6, 2005

Afolabi wins Cain prize . . .

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S.A. Afolabi, a”former book store clerk from Nigeria,” has been announced as the winner of the 2005 Caine Prize for African Writing,” reports an Associated Press wire story. Afolabi won the so-called “African Booker,” worth $15,000, for Monday Morning, “a short story exploring how families respond to the dislocations of exile.”

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