13 July 2015
Zambia's Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa's leading literary award, for her short story entitled "The Sack" from Africa39 (Bloomsbury, London, 2014).
The Chair of Judges, Zoë Wicomb, announced Namwali Serpell as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 6 July) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
