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Monica Arac de Nyeko’s short story “Jambula Tree” wins the 2007 Caine Prize.

The Prize popularly known as the ‘African Booker’ was presented to the author at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, on Monday 9 th July 2007. The Caine Prize was set up by Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, MEP, in memory of her late husband Sir Michael Caine in 2000. The Prize, awarded annually for African creative writing in English, focuses on the short story and reflects contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition.

“Jambula Tree” is one of a collection of 21 short stories featured in Ayebia’s African Love Stories, an anthology Edited by Ama Ata Aidoo and published in July 2006.

Monica Arac de Nyeko after the announcement standing next to the bust of Sir Michael Caine.

 

The author with Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, MEP.

Publisher Becky Ayebia Clarke congratulating the winning author Monica Arac de Nyeko.

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Press release: Monday 10 January 2005

The NOMA Award announces that no title has been selected to win the Award in 2004.

The Jury singled out The Cry of Winnie Mandela and three other titles for an Honourable Mention. The NOMA Award is the most prestigious Award for African Publishing.

The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Njabulo Ndebele (first published by David Philip in Cape Town, 2003 and published in the UK by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd., 2004). Four ordinary South African women tell their stories of waiting for absent husbands, introduced through the faithful Penelope who waited for Odysseus; and dialogue first with an imaginary and then a real Winnie Mandela. Innovative in style and form, the novel marries narrative, essay, and biography genres, turning the story of the political romance between Winnie and Nelson Mandela into something new, a fiction that is invented and reinvented in the process of narration.

For further details of how to acquire a copy of the book, please contact:

Ayebia Clarke Literary Agency & Publishing Ltd.
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The Award is sponsored by Kodansha Ltd, Japan.
For further information about the Award, please go to:
www.nomaaward.org