Memory, loss and loneliness are the themes explored in My Father’s Head, a short story by Kenyan Okwiri Oduor that won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing. The award ceremony took place on 14 July at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.
According to the Chair of Judges, Okwiri “exercises an extraordinary amount of control” in her narrative “and yet the story is subtle, tender and moving.”
Instituted in 2000, the Caine Prize, Africa’s leading literary award, is conferred annually for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language.