2019 Caine Prize

Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah has won the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing – often described as Africa’s leading literary award, for her short story entitled “Skinned”, published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (Issue 53) 2018.…

Two Nigerians have been shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. They are Lesley Arimah for ‘skinned’ and Tochukwu Okafor for ‘All our lives’. The Caine Prize is an annual literary award for the best original short…