Caine Prize for African Writing
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Edition 15 (2014) Winner
Okwiri Oduor
オクウィリ・オドゥオル
Okwiri Oduor
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Nationality
- Kenyan
- Languages
- English, Swahili
Career
- Occupations
- Writer
- Active Years
- 2010-
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Caine Prize for African Writing | My Father's Head | — | Caine Prize | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Commonwealth Book Prize (highly commended) | The Dream Chasers | — | Commonwealth Book Prize | 高く評価（Highly commended） |
| 2014 | MacDowell Colony Fellowship | — | — | MacDowell Colony | フェロー |
| 2014 | Selected for Africa39 | Short story "Rag Doll" included in anthology | — | Hay Festival | 選出 / 収録 |
Caine Prize for African Writing
2014
Work:
My Father's Head
Organization:
Caine Prize
Result:
受賞
Commonwealth Book Prize (highly commended)
2012
Work:
The Dream Chasers
Organization:
Commonwealth Book Prize
Result:
高く評価（Highly commended）
MacDowell Colony Fellowship
2014
Organization:
MacDowell Colony
Result:
フェロー
Selected for Africa39
2014
Work:
Short story "Rag Doll" included in anthology
Organization:
Hay Festival
Result:
選出 / 収録
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
My Father's Head
2014 Short storyAn experimental, lyrical short story exploring loss and repressed memory. Winner of the Caine Prize.
lossmemoryfamily
Rag Doll
2014 Short storyA short story included in the Africa39 anthology, noted for its distinctive voice and image-driven prose.
identitymemoryloss
The Dream Chasers
2012 NovellaA novella highly commended in the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize; deals with dreams, reality and loss.
dreamsblurred realityloss
Things They Lost
2022 NovelDebut novel published in 2022; received positive reviews for blending magical elements with realist depiction.
lossfamilymemorymagical realism
Bibliography
- My Father's Head (short story, 2014)
- Rag Doll (short story, 2014)
- The Dream Chasers (novella, 2012)
- Things They Lost (novel, 2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- poetic and experimental languageimage-driven descriptionslyrical, fragmentary narration
- Recurring Motifs
- lossmemory and forgettingfamily relationshipsboundaries between dream and reality
Legacy
Recognized as a significant contemporary Kenyan writer. Internationally noted after winning the 2014 Caine Prize, being selected for Africa39, and receiving a MacDowell fellowship; her 2022 debut novel also received critical praise.
Trivia
- She became the third Kenyan to win the Caine Prize in 2014 (after Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor).
- Selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 in 2014; her story "Rag Doll" was included in the anthology.
- Her novella The Dream Chasers was highly commended in the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize.
- Published her debut novel Things They Lost in 2022.