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| Zambian writer Namwali Serpell to share Caine prize money | Zambian writer Namwali Serpell to share Caine prize money |
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| US-based Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has promised to share her winnings in the Caine Prize for African Writing with the runners up. | US-based Zambian writer Namwali Serpell has promised to share her winnings in the Caine Prize for African Writing with the runners up. |
| She received the £10,000 ($15,600) prize for her short story The Sack. | She received the £10,000 ($15,600) prize for her short story The Sack. |
| The judges described it as "innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic". | The judges described it as "innovative, stylistically stunning, haunting and enigmatic". |
| Ms Serpell was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa's leading literary award. | Ms Serpell was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa's leading literary award. |
| Two South Africans and two Nigerians were also shortlisted for the prize - Masande Ntshanga for Space, FT Kola for A Party for the Colonel, Elnathan John for Flying and Segun Afolabi for The Folded Leaf. | Two South Africans and two Nigerians were also shortlisted for the prize - Masande Ntshanga for Space, FT Kola for A Party for the Colonel, Elnathan John for Flying and Segun Afolabi for The Folded Leaf. |
| Ms Serpell told BBC Newsday that the promise to share the winnings was "an act of mutiny". | Ms Serpell told BBC Newsday that the promise to share the winnings was "an act of mutiny". |
| "I wanted to change the structure of the prize. | "I wanted to change the structure of the prize. |
| "It is very awkward to be placed into this position of competition with other writers that you respect immensely and you feel yourself put into a sort of American idol or race-horse situation when actually, you all want to support each other." | "It is very awkward to be placed into this position of competition with other writers that you respect immensely and you feel yourself put into a sort of American idol or race-horse situation when actually, you all want to support each other." |
| The chair of judges, Zoe Wicomb, awarded the prize at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in the UK. | The chair of judges, Zoe Wicomb, awarded the prize at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in the UK. |
| The short story "yields fresh meaning with every reading," she said. | The short story "yields fresh meaning with every reading," she said. |
| In The Sack, two men who live together their whole lives love one woman but don't know which one of them she loves. | |
| "One of the men has a series of backwards moving dreams about his own death and he becomes very paranoid about the other man," Ms Serpell said. | "One of the men has a series of backwards moving dreams about his own death and he becomes very paranoid about the other man," Ms Serpell said. |