The Nigerian writer Roy Udeh-Ubaka has been awarded the 2022 Gerald Kraak Prize. The announcement was made on the 25th of May, 2022 during the award ceremony, which was held at the Colour Day in Cape Town. The ceremony was part of the Kopano Festival.
Roy Udeh-Ubaka’s story, “Until It Doesn’t,” was described as a “brave fiction that tweaks the possibilities of the short story form, both in its use of voice and the way it compresses time, to illuminate the truth of so many queer people: the need to marry and make families. . .”
While Ukamaka Olisakwe was named runner-up, for her poem “Slut” and her short story “The Grasscutter’s Curse.”