The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced that South African writer Nadia Davids has won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her remarkable short tale , which was published in The Georgia Review in 2023.
This years competition saw a record-breaking amount of submissions from 28 African countries contending for the prestigious prize, as well as a significant milestone in the Caine Prizes history as it celebrates its 25th year.
Davids will receive the coveted 10,000 (around R232,377) Caine Prize and have her piece featured in the 2024 Caine Prize Anthology, .
is an impressive achievement, a triumph of language, storytelling and risk-taking while maintaining a tightly controlled narrative about women who rebel.
It embodies the spirit of the Caine Prize, which is to celebrate the richness and diversity of short stories by African writers. That is to say, to challenge the single story of African literature, said award-winning author Chika Unigwe, the chair of judges.
