Henrietta Rose-Innes wins £10,000 Caine prize
Lindesay Irvine writing in The Guardian, Tuesday July 8, 2008

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year's £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the "new" South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University's Bodleian Library.

Jude Kelly, the Southbank Centre's artistic director and chair of this year's judges, praised "a sharp talent" with "a rare maturity and a poetic intelligence that is both subtle and deeply effective. It is writing of the highest order."

The full Guardian report online.