{"id":271156,"date":"2009-05-15T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/05\/15\/caine-prize-for-african-writing-finalists\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:57","slug":"caine-prize-for-african-writing-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/05\/15\/caine-prize-for-african-writing-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Caine Prize for African Writing Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for this year&#8217;s Caine Prize for African Writing (given to a short story from an African writer published in English) were announced earlier this week. Here are the five shortlisted pieces, with links to pdf versions of some of the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mamle Kabu (Ghana) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2009_Kabu.pdf\">The End of Skill<\/a> from <em>Dreams, Miracles and Jazz<\/em> published by Picador Africa, Johannesburg 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Parselelo Kantai (Kenya) &#8220;You Wreck Her&#8221; from the <em>St Petersburg Review<\/em>, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Alistair Morgan (South Africa) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2009_Morgan.pdf\">Icebergs<\/a> from <em>The Paris Review<\/em> no. 183, 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>EC Osondu (Nigeria) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2009_Osondu.pdf\">Waiting<\/a> from Guernicamag.com, October 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2009_Ngugi.pdf\">How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile<\/a> from <em>Wasafiri\u2019<\/em> no. 54, Summer 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for this year&#8217;s Caine Prize for African Writing (given to a short story from an African writer published in English) were announced earlier this week. Here are the five shortlisted pieces, with links to pdf versions of some of the stories: Mamle Kabu (Ghana) The End of Skill from Dreams, Miracles and Jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[23746,23716,1836,23756,23726,23766,23736,1646],"class_list":["post-271156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alistair-morgan","tag-caine-prize-for-african-writing","tag-cwp","tag-ec-osondu","tag-mamle-kabu","tag-mukoma-wa-ngugi","tag-parselelo-kantai","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323896,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271156\/revisions\/323896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}