{"id":5545,"date":"2015-07-08T06:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2015-07-08T06:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T06:07:33","slug":"zambian-writer-namwali-serpell-to-share-caine-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/zambian-writer-namwali-serpell-to-share-caine-prize-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian writer Namwali Serpell to share Caine prize money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US-based Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has promised to share her winnings in the Caine Prize for African Writing with the runners up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She received the \u00a310,000 ($15,600) prize for her short story The Sack.<\/p>\n<p>The judges described it as &#8220;innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Serpell was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa&#8217;s leading literary award.<\/p>\n<p>Two South Africans and two Nigerians were also shortlisted for the prize &#8211; Masande Ntshanga for Space, FT Kola for A Party for the Colonel, Elnathan John for Flying and Segun Afolabi for The Folded Leaf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02wh8bs\"><strong>Ms Serpell told BBC Newsday<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that the promise to share the winnings was &#8220;an act of mutiny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to change the structure of the prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very awkward to be placed into this position of competition with other writers that you respect immensely and you feel yourself put into a sort of American idol or race-horse situation when actually, you all want to support each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chair of judges, Zoe Wicomb, awarded the prize at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The short story &#8220;yields fresh meaning with every reading,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In The Sack, two men who live together their whole lives love one woman but don&#8217;t know which one of them she loves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the men has a series of backwards moving dreams about his own death and he becomes very paranoid about the other man,&#8221; Ms Serpell said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has promised to share her winnings in the Caine Prize for African Writing with the runners up. She received the \u00a310,000 ($15,600) prize for her short story The Sack. The judges described it as &#8220;innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic&#8221;. Ms Serpell was among five writers short-listed for the prize, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}