Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale, a biography of her grandmother who was born in northern Ethiopia more than 100 years ago and married at the age of eight, has won the £10,000 RSL Ondaatje prize. Edemariam, a Guardian journalist, beat titles including Sarah Moss’s conjuring of iron age Northumberland, Ghost Wall, and Adam Weymouth’s travelogue, Kings of the Yukon, to this year’s prize. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eidemariam’s grandmother Yetemegnu, pictured in the late 1930s. The biography is a “beautiful, complicated [and] sensual account”, says Roberts. Though I am still present, of course, having translated, written down and/or chosen every word.”

Source: The Guardian May 13, 2019 19:30 UTC