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Podcasts: BBC Profiles Caine Prize Shortlistees (Plus: Diarise 10 July for Southbank Centre Readings)

To See the Mountain and Other StoriesThe 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing shortlistees will be reading from their work at an event held at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival. This event takes place on the 10th of July, the night before the winner of the £10 000 prize is announced.

The shortlisted authors are David Medalie (“The Mistress’s Dog”), Lauri Kubuitsile (“In the spirit of McPhineas Lata”), Tim Keegan (“What Molly Knew”), Beatrice Lamwaka (“Butterfly Dreams”) and NoViolet Bulawayo (“Hitting Budapest”).

The BBC is profiling each of the five shortlistees leading up to the 11 July annoucement. Listen to the following podcasts with shortlistees Tim Keegan, Lauri Kubuitsile, NoViolet Bulawayo and David Medalie:

 
icon for podpress  Tim Keegan [50:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Lauri Kubuitsile [48:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  NoViolet Bulawayo [49:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  David Medalie [13:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Please note: We will make the remaining podcasts available to you as they appear online

Event Details: Caine Prize Readings

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  • <a href="http://imago.book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Sophy</a>
    Sophy
    July 11th, 2011 @16:12 #
     
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    Have added the BBC's podcast with David Medalie to this post.

    Books LIVE will be tweeting the announcement of the Caine Prize winner tonight, so keep your eyes glued to our Twitter feed.

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