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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Epaphras C. Osondu, an assistant professor of English at Providence College, is this year's winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Osondu, who just completed his first year at PC, was selected as the winner yesterday.

Osondu was chosen from among 122 authors from a dozen countries. As the winner, he receives 10,000 British pounds (the equivalent of about $16,500) and a one-month writer-in-residency at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

The Caine Prize, established in 2000, is given to an African author of a short story written in English. Osondu's winning story, "Waiting," is about two African boys living in a refugee camp and waiting to be adopted.

Osondu is originally from Nigeria, where he worked in advertising. He moved to New York, where he studied creative writing at Syracuse University. Before arriving at PC, he taught writing at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse in 2007 and at the University of Maryland in the spring of 2008.

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