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 The Jambula Tree and Other Stories is the eighth collection from the Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa’s leading literary prize. The prize is awarded to a short story by an African writer living in Africa or elsewhere. Each year the winning story and short-listed entries are collected and published in one volume.
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 Malorie Blackman has written over 50 books, including Noughts & Crosses, Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA winning serial, Hacker and Whizziwig among others. She has won a number of literary prizes. Ellie and the Cat is Malorie Blackman's first book published by Cassava Republic.
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 Toni Kan is an award winning poet, essayist and short story writer. He is one of Nigeria's most anthologised young poets and short story writers. Author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection When a Dream Lingers Too Long and the novella Ballad of Rage, his works have appeared in Salthill, Drum Voices, Revue, Farafina, Sentinel Poetry Quarterly and ANA Review.
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 K. Sello Duiker, by the time of his untimely death, had published various short stories and two novels. Thirteen Cents was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for a first novel, while The Quiet Violence of Dreams, won the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Literature.
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Marilyn Heward Mills was born in Switzerland and brought up in Ghana. She was a practising lawyer for over nine years, and now lives in South London with her husband and two children. Cloth Girl is her first novel.
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Doreen Baingana grew up in Entebbe, Uganda, and received a law degree from Makerere University, Kampala, and an MFA from the University of Maryland, USA. She has won the Commonwealth Prize for First Book, Africa Region, the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award in Short Fiction, the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize, and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She is now based in Kenya.
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 Teju Cole is a writer and photographer currently based in New York. He has worked as a cartoonist, dishwasher, lecturer, gardener and haematology researcher. His writing has appeared in various journals in Nigeria and the US. Every Day is for the Thief is his first novel.
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 Helon Habila was born in Kaltungo, Gombe State and educated at the University of Jos and University of East Anglia, England. He teaches Creative Writing at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in the USA where he lives with his family.
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 Abidemi Sanusi was born in Lagos, and was educated in the UK at boarding schools in Sussex and Oxfordshire, and then at Leeds University. Sanusi is a human rights worker and writer, specialising in gender and conflict issues in West Africa.
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 Diana Evans has contributed journalism and criticism to Marie Claire, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Independent and the Source. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA and has published short fiction in a number of anthologies. |
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