July 6, 2005
Afolabi wins Cain prize . . .
by Dennis Johnson
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.”
Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.