Kenyan wins 2022 Caine Prize for writing

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[SIZE=6]Caine Prize winner speaks highly of local storytelling[/SIZE]

SATURDAY JULY 23 2022
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Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo won the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing with her short story Five Years Next Sunday. PHOTO | POOL
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Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo has won the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing with her short story Five Years Next Sunday.

Okey Ndibe, chair of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize judging panel, announced the winner at an award ceremony on July 18 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and described Luhumyo’s story as “an incandescent story, its exquisite language wedded to the deeply moving drama of a protagonist whose mystical office invites animus at every turn.”

Luhumyo beat 267 entries in a year of record submissions, and will receive £10,000 in prize money. Her story will be published in the 2022 AKO Caine Prize anthology later this year.

Another Kenyan won 4 years ago:

https://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php?threads/kenyan-makena-onjerika-wins-2018-caine-prize.81906/#post-1722722

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Congratulations to her. Four other Kenyans have won, including Binyavanga Wainaina who was the first in Kenya.

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Tony Mochama the enfant terrible of Kenyan letters was deriding such awards as overrated the other day since only few of the winners have gone ahead to become prolific novelists.