Uganda's Harriet Anena wins Wole Soyinka literature award
Harriet Aber Anena, a Ugandan writer and Prof Tanure Ojaide were on December 9 announced joint winners of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018.
The announcement was made at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria.
The award is worth US$10,000, and is given once every two years.
Anena, who works at Africa Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), could not hide the excitement.
On her twitter handle, she wrote: "Super happy to be the joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, 2018, for my book A Nation in Labour."
ACME twitted: "Today [Monday 10] we celebrate our very own Harriet Ber Anena, who this weekend was announced as a joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018. Apwoyo yele!"
Previous winners of the prize include Sefi Atta for Everything Good Will Come in 2006 and Nnedi Okora for, Zahrah the wind seeker in 2008.
This year's edition of the prize was for poetry and there were 110 submissions from 11 countries on the continent, including Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, and Rwanda.
