Caine Prize 2016 winner Lidudumalingani Mqobothi says that Kwani? Trust are refusing to release his royalties. The South African writer-photographer made the revelation on Facebook this morning. Lidudumalingani was awarded the seventeenth Caine Prize for his short story “Memories We Lost,” originally published in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You anthology. “Memories We Lost” is an emotionally […]
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Bye, Bye Bare Walls! | Lidudumalingani is Now Selling Prints of His Photographs
South African writer and photographer Lidudumalingani now has an Instagram storefront where he sells prints of his photographs. Lidudumalingani first stole our hearts when his short story “Memories We Lost” won him the 2016 Caine Prize for African Fiction. We’ve since kept an eye on his work, including his photographs, which he shares on Instagram […]
PHOTOS | Abantu Book Festival: A Literary Platform for Black Writers and Readers
On December 6th, history was made in South Africa with the inauguration of the Abantu Festival. Black writers in South Africa and from other parts of the continent gathered in Soweto to celebrate African writing and literary culture. Novelist Panashe Chigumadzi, one of the festival’s main curators, was inspired, in part, by Ake Art and Books […]
Lidudumalingani: “I cannot help but feel his body against mine, light and fragile”
In the past few days, this image of a boy covered in dust and blood has been making its rounds on social media. His name is Omran Daqneesh. The image comes from a video taken after an airstrike in Aleppo, a city in Syria. As the image continues to generate outrage against the horror of what some […]
#CainePrize2016 | And the Winner is Lidudumalingani! | Caine Prize for African Writing
Lidudumalingani has just been announced winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story titled “Memories We Lost.” The announcement was made at the award ceremony, which took place this evening at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. “‘Memories We Lost’ tells the emotionally charged story of a girl who acts as protector […]
#CainePrize2016 | Interview with Lidudumalingani | by Akati Khasiani
Each day brings us closer to July 4th when the 17th winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing will be unveiled. You’ve either read the shortlisted stories or read the reviews we posted right here on Brittle Paper. You have a sense of what the stories are about. You know whether you like them or not. […]
#CainePrize2016 | Ikhide Ikheloa Reviews Lidudumalingani’s Memories We Lost
Hey Brittlers! Welcome to our 2016 Caine Prize Blog-a-thon. In the next two weeks, we will post reviews of the five stories shortlisted for the 17th edition of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In just about a month, one of the five lucky shortlistees will take home the £10,000 prize. In the meantime, can we all talk […]
Meet the Instagram Photographer Shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize
Lidudumalingani is a 2016 Caine Prize shortlistee. His beautiful story titled “Memories we Lost”—which you can read here—has him on one of the most coveted shortlists in the world. We did a little bit of digging and discovered that Lidudumalingani curates an Instagram page. To those of you who have read his story, he is an […]
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