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£10,000 Caine Prize for South African Writer Henrietta Rose-Innes

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Posted by: CareTaker on July 8, 2008 Under: Arts & Entertainment, Community Report, Editor's Pick, People, South Africa



South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.

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