[SKRIVA] Sf-författare vinner Afrikas största littpris

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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=62236


"Fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor's novel

Zahrah the Windseeker is the winner of this year's

Wole Soyinka Prize, an award given to African writers,

named in honor of African Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

The award comes with a cash prize of $20,000 and was

presented in Lagos, Nigeria.



"The novel tells the story of Zahrah, a shy teenager

who learns that she has the ability to fly. 'When she

and her best friend, Dari, venture into the forbidden

forest in search of privacy so she can practice her

flying, Dari is bitten by a rare war snake,' Okorafor

said in an interview. 'He falls into a coma, and only

the serum of the egg of a terrible beast can cure him.

That beast happens to reside hundreds of miles in the

forbidden forest. Guilt-stricken and distraught,

Zahrah ventures into the forest to find this egg. And

so the adventures begins.'



"Before writing Zahrah the Windseeker, Okorafor had

written stories that explored the milieu, but Zahrah

explored a part and culture of this world that she

hadn't written about yet. 'The great forest Zahrah

ventures into came to me one night when I was looking

out into the forest that surrounds the house my family

owns in Nigeria,' she said. 'This warm evening I was

watching a swarm of bats fly into the forest to forage

for food. A wind swept over the trees, rippling

through the leaves. That was when I grasped the idea.

The forest seemed so alive.'" 


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