South African Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the £10 000 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Poison.’ This is the second prize that Rose-Innes has received for the story which won the 2007 SA PEN Award and was published in the anthology Africa Pens: New Writing from Southern Africa 2007. The prize was announced at a ceremony in London yesterday evening.

Rose-Innes has published two novels Shark’s Egg and The Rock Alphabet and is a former student of JM Coetzee’s creative writing programme at UCT. 

In addition to the prize money she also receives a month long scholarship to study at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

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