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Detailed explanation-1: -Eswatini writer Ntsika Kota has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his story ‘and the earth drank deep’. Kota’s story centres on a group of villagers in a hunter-gatherer society in the distant past of our species.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2, 000–5, 000 words). Regional winners each receive £2, 500 and the overall winner receives £5, 000.

Detailed explanation-3: -Entrants must be aged 18 years or over on 1 November 2022. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction administered and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. The story should be adult fiction. There are no restrictions on setting, genre or theme.

Detailed explanation-4: -The awards were established in 1987 as the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Initially two honours, best book and best first book, were awarded to fiction writers working in English in each of four regions: Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, Europe and South Asia, and Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.