Nigerian author, Tope Folarin as been announced as the winner of the�2013 Caine Prize for African Writing with his story titled �Miracle�
Folarin was announced as the winner Monday evening�at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and winning a total prize money of��10,000�(N2.5million).
According to�Gus Casely-Hayford�the Chair of the judges, �Tope Folarin�s �Miracle� is another superb Caine Prize winner � a delightful and beautifully paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling.�
Tope Folarin is the recipient of writing fellowships from the Institute for Policy Studies and Callaloo, and he serves on the board of the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Tope was educated at Morehouse College, and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Master�s degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives and works in Washington, DC.
He�will take up a month�s residence at Georgetown University, as a Writer-in-Residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and will be invited to take part in the Open Book Festival in Cape Town in September.
Tope is succeeding another Nigeria;�Rotimi Babatunde, who picked the prize in 2012 with his short story, Bombay Republic.
Previous winners alongside Babatunde from Nigeria are: Helon Habila (2001), Segun Afolabi (2005) and EC Osondu (2009).
The�2013 shortlist�comprises:
Elnathan John (Nigeria) �Bayan Layi� from Per Contra, Issue 25 (USA, 2012)�
Tope Folarin (Nigeria) �Miracle� from Transition, Issue 109 (Bloomington, 2012)�
Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone) �Foreign Aid� from Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 23.3 (Philadelphia, 2012)�
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria) �The Whispering Trees� from The Whispering Trees, published by Parr�sia Publishers (Lagos, 2012)�
Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria) �America� from Granta, Issue 118 (London, 2012)�
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