"Triskaidekaphobia' — meaning fear of the 'unlucky' number 13 — is an unfortunately ugly word. Thankfully, 2012's shortlisted Caine Prize stories usually avoid any ugliness of expression, and yet this year — the thirteenth of this important prize — will like any other feel relatively unlucky for four of the five shortlisted authors: Nigeria's Rotimi Babatunde, Kenya's Billy Kahora, Malawi's Stanley Kenani, Zimbabwe's Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, or South Africa's Constance Myburgh. Only one will get the £10,000 prize, the big literary contract and a seat on Oprah's colour-purple sofa."
- Stephen Derwent Partington on the Caine Prize
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