Described as "Joycean in its reach," Kenyan author's short story My Father's Head is named winner of £10,000 award Kenyan author Okwiri Oduor has won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story My Fathers Head. Described as an uplifting story about mourning, Nairobi-born Oduors 2013 work begins with the narrator's attempts to remember what her fathers face looked like as she struggles to cope with his loss, and follows her as she finds the courage to remember.
Described as "Joycean in its reach," Kenyan author's short story My Father's Head is named winner of £10,000 award Kenyan author Okwiri Oduor has won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story My Fathers Head. Described as an uplifting story about mourning, Nairobi-born Oduors 2013 work begins with the narrator's attempts to remember what her fathers face looked like as she struggles to cope with his loss, and follows her as she finds the courage to remember.
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