NoViolet Bulawayo wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award for 'Hitting Budapest'

Zimbabwe: Noviolet Bulawayo Wins the Best of 25 Years of the Caine Prize. Why She Deserves It

Analysis - Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has been honoured as Africa's best short story writer after winning the Best of Caine Award. The special recognition marks 25 years of the annual Caine Prize for African Writing.

NoViolet Bulawayo wins the best of 25 years of the Caine Prize. Why she deserves it

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has been honoured as Africa’s best short story writer after winning the Best of Caine Award. The special recognition marks 25 years of the annual Caine Prize for African Writing. An esteemed panel of judges unanimously selected Bulawayo as the standout winner of the 25 stories awarded the prize so far. Her short story, Hitting Budapest, won the prize in 2011. She has gone on to publish two acclaimed novels, We…

NoViolet Bulawayo wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award for 'Hitting Budapest'

Zimbabwean Author NoViolet Bulawayo Wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo has been awarded the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story “Hitting Budapest,” which originally won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011. Earlier this year, we reported the shortlist for the special one-time prize celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Caine Prize for African Writing, honoring the […]

Bulawayo wins Best of Caine Award | Books+Publishing

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story ‘Hitting Budapest’, which originally won the Caine Prize in 2011, reported BookBrunch yesterday. The Best of Caine Award was presented to mark the short story prize’s 25th anniversary, awarded to ‘the most outstanding winning story from the prize’s history’. ‘Hitting […]

Zimbabwean Writer Noviolet Bulawayo Wins The 2025 Best Of Caine Award - Alt A Review

The Caine Prize for African Writing is delighted to announce that Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has been awarded the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story, Hitting Budapest, which originally won the Prize in 2011.  Marking the Prize’s 25th anniversary, the Best of Caine Award is an honorary prize celebrating the most outstanding winning story from the Prize’s 25 year history. Ellah Wakatama OBE, Chair of the Caine Prize, announced N…