Nigerian Lesley Nneka Arimah (above left) is winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African region) for her short story 'Light'. Congrats to her.

Other 2015 Regional Winners are Asia: Siddhartha Gigoo, ‘The Umbrella Man’ (India); Canada and Europe: Jonathan Tel, The Human Phonograph (United Kingdom); Caribbean: Kevin Jared Hosein, ‘The King of Settlement 4′ (Trinidad and Tobago); and Pacific: Mary Rokonadravu, ‘Famished Eels’ (Fiji).

The regional winners will compete with each other to become the overall winner, which will be announced in London on 8 September.

The Prize provides a platform for writers from the 53 countries of the Commonwealth to inspire others by bringing compelling short stories to awider audience. This year unpublished stories were entered by 4,000 writers from the five regions of the Commonwealth.

The international judges reflect these regions: Leila Aboulela, (Africa), Bina Shah (Asia), Marina Endicott (Canada and Europe), Fred D’Aguiar (the Caribbean) andWiti Ihimaera (the Pacific).

This year’s Chair, Romesh Gunesekera, said of the winning stories:

“We had a strong short-list of stories from around the world that excited the judges and provoked a lively, stimulating set of discussions. The judges were looking for well-crafted stories that were compellingand original. The standards were high. We wanted stories that would engage usand make us rethink our notions of form, language and what mattered. The winning stories did all of that and more. Thank you writers.”

Celebrate Nigeria! Celebrate Literature! Kudos!

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Proud of that girl.

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op pls put the direct link source

I like her teeth
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She look like black america

lalasticlala:
op pls put the direct link source

I'll do that right away. Sorry I had some blogging issues to attend to so I didn't see your comment on tim

I love it when Ladies make good names/Cash for themselves, it shows that some girls aren't depending on our pockets but after making cash no dey do Yanga for us, please and please you no be Genevieve.

-Valar Moghulis

We don see her

Nigerians, making Africa proud since 1960...other African countries should pay us tithe yearly..#justsaying#..

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Congrats girl...keep flying the flag high.

Nigeria's got talent.

Please play me bottles by sean tizzle

Congrat

Ada Igbo daalu

I'm proud of her.

Nice one

Happy

Nice one there!

I hope jobless peeps wont come here to tell us she's igbo and not a nigerian e.g the album loading boy airforce.1

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Disclamer;Lalasticlala is a racist; if post from my blog makes fp lala would give it another source instead of my blog source. And a girl just told him to put her blog link and he did it ASAP #lala, God dey o.

My younger sister

Goodnews

Well done

Great feat! Literati!

Making Nigeria proud.

Good for her

She try

Kudos doing Nigeria proud.

Just like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Here is an excerpt.

“She strings his virtues out like Christmas lights – he’s
shorter than her so he has to obey her, he’s finally
learning how to kiss well – and her mother silences
her by saying, sadly, that she didn’t think she’d raised
that kind of girl. Her mother’s disappointment is the
first time the girl becomes aware that the world
requires something different than she is. It dampens
her for a few days that worry Enebeli, and then she
returns, but there is a little less light to her.”

jmoore:


What is the meaning of racist?

he declined my request cos am a guy and he replied the babe asap

jmoore:


What is the meaning of racist?

he declined my request cos am a guy and he replied the babe ASAP

As i no get transport fare, make i trek from ojota to oshodi in favour of president-electBuhari.