Children's book wins African Nobel prize.

From the Guardian:

The Wole Soyinka is a pan-African prize for literature designed "to celebrate excellence in all its cerebral grace, its liberating qualities, the honour and recognition it brings to a myriad of people, of diverse cultures and languages" and to operate as "the African Nobel prize for literature". Indeed, it's named after the first sub-Saharan African to win the Nobel prize proper, Wole Soyinka, who took the laureateship in 1986.

That a young adult fantasy novel should win such a prestigious prize is - as the always interesting Cheryl Morgan from Science Fiction Awards Watch suggested to me - both highly unusual and "pretty awesome".

Neither of the reviews I've read about Zahra the Windseeker were raves, but I'm certainly curious.  Adding it to my list!

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I clicked through from the Guardian piece to read the author's account of winning the prize. I hope everyone who reads this, does too. It was too good to miss.