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Let's Tell This Story Properly Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Let's Tell This Story Properly By Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Let's Tell This Story Properly by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey


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Provocative, moving, and rich in craft, the stories gathered here represent some of the most original emerging writers in the world. The selected, groundbreaking stories carry on the almost thirty-year tradition of the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes, past winners of which include Jhumpa Lahiri. Zadie Smith, Alice Munro, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Let's Tell This Story Properly Summary

Let's Tell This Story Properly: An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.

This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's Let's Tell This Story Properly, alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

Let's Tell This Story Properly Reviews

United only by the shared experience of diaspora and the consequences of imperialism, this collection of captivating vignettes focuses on the personal stories that form - and are often forgotten in - the broad sweep of history. * Publishers Weekly *

About Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

Ellah Wakatama Allfrey is an editor, critic, and broadcaster. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine and Chair of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judging panel, she is a series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Project, the Deputy Chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing, and patron of the Etisalat Literature Prize. A member of the judging panel for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, she was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to the publishing industry. She lives in London, England.

Table of Contents

  • The Commonwealth Short Story Prize
  • Foreword by Ramesh Gunesekera
  • Editor's Note
  • Hummingbird, Daniel Anders (Australia)
  • A Day in the Death, Evan Adam Ang (Singapore)
  • Grandmother, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Singapore)
  • Devil Star, Hazel Campbell (Jamaica)
  • Sending for Chantal, Maggie Harris (Guyana)
  • Fatima Saleh, Alexander Ikawah (Kenya)
  • Notes from the Ruins, Anushka Jasraj (India)
  • Cowboy, Helen Klonaris (Bahamas)
  • Elbow, Khadija Magardie (South Africa)
  • Antonya's Baby Shower on Camperdown Road by A.L. Major (Bahamas)
  • Let's Tell This Story Properly, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda)
  • The Sarong-Man in the Old House, and an Incubus for a Rainy Night, Michael Mendis (Sri Lanka)
  • Ghost Marriage, Andrea Mullaney (UK)
  • If These Walls Had Ears, Carl Nixon (New Zealand)
  • Tenure, Julian Novitz (New Zealand)
  • Next Full Moon We'll Release Juno, Bridget Pitt (South Africa)
  • The Night of Broken Glass, Jack Wang (Canada)
  • About the Authors

Additional information

GOR012694191
9781459730557
1459730550
Let's Tell This Story Properly: An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
Used - Good
Paperback
Dundurn Group Ltd
20150516
240
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