Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14120349

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.

The £10,000 ($16,000) prize was given for her story Hitting Budapest about hungry children from a shantytown who steal guavas from an upmarket suburb.

She told the BBC: "I try to write stories that don't normally get told."

The chair of judges said the gang of "poor and violated" children were "reminiscent of Clockwork Orange".




NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and studied in the US