US-based
Nigerian writer, Tope Folarin has won this year's prestigious Caine Prize for
African Writing.
He
received the £10,000 ($15,000) prize for his short story Miracle, set in an
evangelical Nigerian church in the US city of Texas.
The
judges described it as a "delightful and beautifully paced
narrative".
Folarin
was among five writers short-listed for the prize, regarded as Africa's leading
literary award, reports the BBC.
Three
other Nigerians were short-listed - Elnathan John for Bayan Layi, Abubakar Adam
Ibrahim for The Whispering Trees and Chinelo Okparanta for America.
Last
year's winner was Rotimi Babatunde for his story Bombay's Republic - about
Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during World War II.
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