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The shortlist for the 2004 Caine Prize has been announced. The finalists are Doreen Baingana (Uganda) for “Hunger,” which appeared in The Sun; Brian Chikwava (Zimbabwe) for “Seventh Street Alchemy,” which was published in Writing Still: New Stories from Zimbabwe; Parselelelo Kantai (Kenya) for “The Story of Comrade Lemma and the Black Jerusalem Boys Band,” which appeared in Kwani?; Monica Arac de Nyeko (Uganda) for Strange Fruit,” which appeared online at AuthorMe; and Chika Unigwe (Nigeria) for “The Secret,” which was online at Open Wide. All the short-listed authors will receive a travel award, and the winner will take home $15,000. The Caine Prize has been dubbed “The African Booker.” Previous winners include Leila Aboulela (Sudan), Helon Habila (Nigeria), Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya) and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya). I haven’t seen coverage of the shortlist anywhere on the major outlets, but if I come across anything, I’ll update here.
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Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.