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South Africa: Author Nominated for Top Prize
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Cape Argus (Cape Town)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
Leila Samodien
Cape Town author Henrietta Rose-Innes has been nominated among a handful of Africa's most talented writers for the Caine Prize.
The Caine Prize, ranked as Africa's equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, awards recognition to African writers for short stories. This year, organisers received 90 entries from 17 countries.
Rose-Innes was shortlisted with four other competitors, including another writer from South Africa, Gill Schierhout.
It would be the second time Rose-Innes reaches the shortlist after also receiving a nomination last year for her short story Bad Places.
For the 2008 competition, she submitted Poison, a story seen through the eyes of a woman who flees with millions of others when a natural disaster strikes Cape Town.
Rose-Innes said that as someone who grew up in the city and had lived here all her life, she had taken a particular interest in Cape Town and its diverse landscape.
"Cape Town is endlessly fascinating because you can write about it for decades without running out of ideas. Its culture is so varied and fascinating, and it has a complicated history," she said.
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Poison, in particular, has done well for the local writer, winning the Africa Pens writing competition last year.
This qualified the short story to be entered for the Caine Prize.
The final winner will rake in a £10 000 prize when it is announced at a ceremony in Oxford, England, in July.
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