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Writer Honored for Work About Apartheid

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:04:25 PM
By DONNA BRYSON

South African writer Mary Watson, winner of this year's Caine Prize for African writing, talks to the Associated Press, during an interview in central London, Tuesday July 11, 2006. Watson, with her book 'Jungfrau', was the seventh winner of the 10,000-pound (US$18,000; euro 14,000) short story prize, sometimes dubbed the "African Booker" because of its link to the late Man Booker Prize chairman Sir Michael Caine, a British businessman with a deep interest in Africa, and establishing itself as one of the most prestigious awards for young African writers. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) - The surreal and the subtle intrigue South African writer Mary Watson. In exploring those qualities in her fiction, she gives a fresh perspective on the brutality of apartheid.

Watson, who this week was named the latest winner of the Caine Prize for African writing, tries not to write about politics in an obvious way.

"I think there's a danger of being false, to talk about it (apartheid) overtly," she said in an interview with The Associated Press.


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