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| Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor, who won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. |
Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor was Monday named the winner of the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing.
Ms Oduor was announced winner at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and walked away with £10,000 (Sh1.5 million).
She was among those shortlisted in the prestigious annual awards for her short story “My Father’s Head."
The
chief judge, Scottish writer Jackie May, said Ms Oduor’s story explores
the narrator’s difficulty in dealing with the loss of her father and
looks at the themes of memory, loss and loneliness.
UPLIFTING STORY
“Okwiri
Oduor is a writer we are all really excited to have discovered. ‘My
Father’s Head’ is an uplifting story about mourning — Joycean in its
reach. She exercises an extraordinary amount of control and yet the
story is subtle, tender and moving. It is a story you want to return to
the minute you finish it,” she said.
Ms Oduor has said she hopes that her journey in writing will serve as an inspiration for other writers.
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