This edition collects the five 2009 shortlisted stories, along with 12 stories written at the Caine Prize Writers` Workshop, taking place in Spring 2009. The collection will be released in time for the announcement of the award in July 2009. Previous winners & entrants include Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brian Chikwava, Mary Watson, Binyavanga Wainaina & Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. The four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz & John Coetzee are patrons of The Caine Prize. `I believe the Prize will achieve excellence & transform perceptions. Whatever helps the literature of Africa enriches the literature of the world`
- Ben Okri, author.