CULTURETECHLENSCaine Prize for African Writing
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Combined Graph record U-01499 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-L-0026. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
The Caine Prize for African Writing is the foremost international literary prize for a short story by an African author; the first Caine Prize was awarded in 2000 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the prize has championed writers from across the continent and its diaspora for more than two decades — from the Prize's own site (tier 2), fetched in full. It is a registered charity named for the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, awarding GBP 10,000 annually (per the Prize's own About/press text).
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is the foremost international literary prize for a short story by an African author; the first Caine Prize was awarded in 2000 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the prize has championed writers from across the continent and its diaspora for more than two decades — from the Prize's own site (tier 2), fetched in full.
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is the foremost international literary prize for a short story by an African author; the first Caine Prize was awarded in 2000 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the prize has championed writers from across the continent and its diaspora for more than two decades — from the Prize's own site (tier 2), fetched in full. It is a registered charity named for the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc, awarding GBP 10,000 annually (per the Prize's own About/press text).
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