The winner is ... A short story with a long shadow

31 May 2016 - 10:11
By ANDILE NDLOVU

One of the five writers shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing is Capetonian writer, photographer and filmmaker Lidudumalingani Mqombothi . Mqombothi's short story, Memories We Lost, examines a young girl's mental illness and its effects on her younger sister, their family and the community they inhabit.

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