Okwiri Oduor was announced the winner of the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing for "My Father's Head", her short story from Feast, Famine and Potluck (Short Story Day Africa, South Africa 2013).
The story tells of the narrator's difficulty in dealing with the loss of her father, and explores themes of memory, loss and loneliness. Jackie Kay MBE, the Chair of Judges, said "Okwiri Oduor is a writer we are all really excited to have discovered. My Father's Head is a story you want to return to the minute you finish it."
Odour won the £10,000 prize at a dinner held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. She was also given a chance to take up a month's residence at Georgetown University, as a writer-in-residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and offered an invitation to take part in the Open Book Festival in Cape Town in September 2014.
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