Lizzy Attree Boeken

Celebrating its seventeenth year, Africa's premier literary award honors outstanding short stories by African writers published in English. This collection features eighteen stories, including the five shortlisted entries from 2016 and works created during the Caine Prize Writers Workshop in Zambia. Notable authors include Abdul Adan, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tope Folarin, Bongani Kona, and Lidudumalingani, showcasing diverse voices and narratives from across the continent.

The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors' responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They comprise a valuable archive which documents and contextualises the variety of views and opinions of different authors on their often ground-breaking choices in writing about HIV/AIDS.