South Africa’s Nadia Davids recently won the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Bridling”, published in the US University of Georgia’s literary journal The Georgia Review in 2023.
The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best short story by an African writer, living and working in Africa or elsewhere in the world, and published in the English language. Among other things, the fictional story must be more than 3,000 words and less than 10,000 words.