Davids scoops Caine Prize for African Writing ahead of 320 entries for her work Bridling
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.South African writer, theatre-maker and scholar Nadia Davids has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing for her story,It is an annual award for a short story by an African writer published in English of a length between 3 000 to 10 000 words. This year’s competition witnessed a record-breaking number of submissions, with 320 entries from 28 African countries.
Davids said in a post on Instagram: “This last year has brought me some creative and professional challenges, making the good news of these last few weeks all the more joyful.”Bridling was “power, rebellion, the often-impossible constraints of girl and womanhood and the ways we try to free ourselves”.
Davids will receive £10 000, in addition to having her work featured in the 2024 Caine Prize Anthology,
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