South African Writer Lidudumalingani Wins 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing

• The South African writer and filmmaker, Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, has won the prestigious Caine Prize for his short story, Memories We Lost.
• The prize, launched in 2000, is awarded annually to an African writer of a short story published in English.
• The story about two sisters - one of whom is schizophrenic - interrogates some of the traditional beliefs and methods used to tackle the mental illness. 
• Mqombothi has received the prestigious award at a dinner at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. With this, Lidudumalingani was awarded 10000 Euros and a month at Georgetown University in the US as a writer-in-residence.
• The Caine Prize, also referred as the African Booker is an annual literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in the English language.

Important Question for Competitive Exam from this Current affairs:

1. Which writer won prestigious Caine Prize 2016 for his short story, Memories We Lost: a)Lidudumalingani Mqombothi b)Zakes Mda c)Njabulo Ndebele d)Mongane Wally Serote

source: BBC News