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Devil is in the detail: What it takes to win coveted Caine Prize

Kenyan author Okwiri Oduor, the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing winner.

The Caine Prize for African Writing is a prestigious award which has projected many fiction writers at the beginner’s level to prominence. The 2020 submissions are ongoing and will end on January 31, next year.

But since it was founded in 2000, there has never been a judge from Kenya picked to sit in the panel tasked with shortlisting and awarding.

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