" Interest in Ms. Selasi began building when an earlier short story, "The Sex Life of African Girls, " was published in Granta in 2011 and later included in "The Best American Short Stories 2012.

WSJ: Growing Up With a Panther Mom: Taiye Selasi

Kipling, who lived from 1865 to 1936, was best known for his fictional short stories including The Jungle Book and poems Mandalay and If.

BBC: Rudyard Kipling

New Zealand writer Craig Cliff won best first book for A Man Melting, a collection of short stories.

BBC: Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth Writers' honour