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Prison Stories, the Glossary

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Prison Stories, styled as Prison Stories: A Collection of Short Storie, is a collection of prison stories by Nigerian writer Helon Habila.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 11 relations: Anthology, Caine Prize, English language, Hardcover, Helon Habila, Literary fiction, Nigeria, Nigerians, Prison literature, Short story, Social novel.

  2. 2000 short story collections
  3. Books about imprisonment
  4. Fiction set in prison
  5. Nigerian short story collections

Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Caine Prize

The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Helon Habila

Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet, whose writing has won many prizes, including the Caine Prize in 2001.

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Literary fiction

Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction); or, otherwise, refer to novels that are character-driven rather than plot-driven, examine the human condition, use language in an experimental or poetic fashion, or are simply considered serious art.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Nigerians

Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria.

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Prison literature

Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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The social novel, also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel".

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See also

2000 short story collections

Books about imprisonment

Fiction set in prison

Nigerian short story collections

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Stories