{"id":2184,"date":"2011-07-13T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:03","slug":"noviolet-bulawayo-wins-12th-caine-prize-for-african-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/13\/noviolet-bulawayo-wins-12th-caine-prize-for-african-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"NoViolet Bulawayo wins 12th Caine Prize for African Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/news_2011_winner.php\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2011_noviolet2.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zimbabwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading literary award, for her short story entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHitting Budapest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, from The Boston Review, Vol 35, no. 6 &#8211; Nov\/Dec 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The Chair of Judges, award-winning author Hisham Matar, announced NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the \u00c2\u00a310,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday 11 July) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nHisham Matar said: &#8220;The language of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHitting Budapest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 crackles. Here we encounter Darling, Bastard, Chipo, Godknows, Stina and Sbho, a gang reminiscent of Clockwork Orange. But these are children, poor and violated and hungry. This is a story with moral power and weight, it has the artistry to refrain from moral commentary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2011_winner.pdf\">http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/pdf\/2011_winner.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caineprize.com\/news_2011_winner.php\">via The Caine Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Zimbabwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading literary award, for her short story entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHitting Budapest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, from The Boston Review, Vol 35, no. 6 &#8211; Nov\/Dec 2010. The Chair of Judges, award-winning author Hisham Matar, announced NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the \u00c2\u00a310,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/13\/noviolet-bulawayo-wins-12th-caine-prize-for-african-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NoViolet Bulawayo wins 12th Caine Prize for African Writing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[463,461,462],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-bulawayo","tag-caineprize","tag-noviolet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}