Mary Watson from South Africa won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa’s leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss (Kwela Books, 2004).

“It is a powerfully written narrative that works skilfully through a child’s imagination to suggest a world of insights about familial and social relationships in the new South Africa.” said Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe.  “It is superbly written and does what a short story should do, by leaving spaces around its narrative in which readers can enter again and again”.

Also on the shortlist were:

* Sefi Atta (Nigeria), for The Last Trip, from Chimurenga 8, 2006 
* Darrel Bristow-Bovey (South Africa), for A Joburg story, from African Compass – New Writing from Southern Africa 2005, Spearhead, 2005 
* Muthoni Garland (Kenya), for Tracking the Scent of My Mother, from Seventh Street Alchemy: A Selection of Writings from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004, Jacana Media, 2005 
* Laila Lalami (Morocco), for The Fanatic, from Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005

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