down with a sigh.
K
enya's Okwiri Oduor won the 2014 Caine Prize for African
Writing, described as Africa's leading literary award, for her
short story entitled 'My Father's Head' from Feast, Famine
and Potluck (Short Story Day Africa, South Africa, 2013).
The Chair of Judges, Jackie May MBE, announced Okwiri Oduor as
the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening
(Monday, 14 July) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
'My Father's Head' explores the narrator's difficulty in dealing with
the loss of her father and looks at the themes of memory, loss and
loneliness. The narrator works in an old people's home and comes into
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