Mary Watson Wins Caine Prize
Mary Watson, South African author of Moss, a collection of short stories (Kwela, 2004), has won the prestigious £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing. The prize was awarded for the story “Jungfrau”, the opening piece in Moss.
Andre Brink & Mary Watson at the recent Cape Town Book Fair
Click on the image below for Kwela’s official press release:
July 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
[…] Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and JM Coetzee - the four African winners of literature’s grandest laurel, the Nobel, are the Caine Prizes’ patrons. South Africa’s hopes were resting on Henrietta Rose-Innes, for her story “Bad Places”; local author Mary Watson won the prize last year. […]
May 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
[…] Caine Prize Readings at the Southbank Centre June 28th, 2008 by Henrietta If you find yourself in London on the 6th July, it would be great to have you in the audience at the the 2008 Caine Prize Readings, part of the London Literary Festival at the Southbank Centre. Two South African authors are on the shortlist this year. The prize was won by our own Mary Watson in 2006, and last year by Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko. […]