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Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Nigeria's Tope Folarin wins 2013 Caine Prize

 The wait is finally over, last night at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Nigeria's Tope Folarin was declared the winner of the 2013 Caines prize for his story "Miracle". His story comes top of the five shortlist out of which four entries were from Nigeria and one from Sierra Leone.
The last Edition was won by Nigeria's Babatunde Rotimi, Tope resides in the United States Of America and he went home with the $15,000 winning prize.
Read Tope's winning Story here: Tope Folarin (Nigeria) ‘Miracle’ from Transition, Issue 109 (Bloomington, 2012), http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/transition-magazine

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