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Thanks to the good offices of
Alvaro Ribeiro, the English Department has been selected by the Caine
Prize for African Writing to host the winner of the Prize as a
Writer-in-Residence for one month each fall following the award. This
residency will begin Fall 2007 and will take place under the umbrella of
the new Lannan Programs.
The annual Prize, awarded in Oxford, England, is the most distinguished
award for African writers published or translated in English. The
winner will now receive, in addition to a cash award of GBP 10,000, the
opportunity to come to Georgetown and our Department for a month to do
public readings and to work with students. Named in memory of the late
Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, Chairman of Africa 95,
and Chairman of the Booker Prize for Fiction management committee for
almost 25 years, the Caine Prize for African Writing was first awarded
in 2000 at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in Harare. Alvaro is a
member of the Council for the Caine Prize and brought Jonathan Taylor,
Chair of the Council and Alicia Adams, Vice President for International
Programming at the Kennedy Center and also a member of the Council, to
Georgetown to seal the deal.
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