The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, now in its tenth year, is one of the world's most dynamic literary honours. Spanning fifty-four countries, it is awarded for the best short fiction from the Commonwealth regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific. This collection is titled after the overall winning entry by Sri Lanka's Kanya D'Almeida - a deeply moving story in which two women, both outcasts, find a connection and share their harrowing life experiences for the first time. The other winning stories - by Rémy Ngamije (Namibia), Carol Farrelly (Scotland), Roland Watson-Grant (Jamaica), and Katerina Gibson (Australia) - are earthy, rollicking, dreamlike, disorienting ... and utterly captivating.
Rémy Ngamije
Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian writer and photographer. He won the Africa Regional Prize of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2021 and 2020. He is the founder of the Doek Arts Trust, an arts organization which publishes Doek! Literary Magazine, the country’s first literary magazine which he cofounded and serves as editor-in-chief. His work has been supported by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the Miles Morland Foundation and has been featured in literary festivals in Accra, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Berlin, and Basel. More of his writing can be read on his website: RemyTheQuill.com.
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