from wikipedia accessed 7/6/13
The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity. The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Recipients
2013 – Redi Tlhabi for Endings and Beginnings
2012 – Hugh Lewin for Stones against the Mirror
2011 – Ronnie Kasrils for The Unlikely Secret Agent
2010 – Albie Sachs for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
2009 – Peter Harris for In a Different Time
2008 – Mark Gevisser for Thabo Mbeki - The Dream Deferred
2007 – Ivan Vladislavic for Portrait with Keys
2006 – Jointly awarded to Edwin Cameron for Witness to AIDS & Adam Levin for AidSafari
2005 – Jonny Steinberg for The Number
2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night
2003 – Jonny Steinberg for Midlands
2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station
2001 – Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass
2000 – Anthony Sampson for Mandela: The Authorised Biography
1999 – Jointly awarded to Antjie Krog for Country of My Skull & Stephen Clingman for Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary
1998 – John Reader for Africa: A Biography of a Continent
1997 – Charles van Onselen for The Seed is Mine
1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya
1995 – Nelson Mandela for Long Walk to Freedom
1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for Return to Paradise
1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal
1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa
1991 – Albie Sachs for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise
1989 – Marq de Villiers for White Tribe Dreaming
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Showing posts with label African. Show all posts
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Sunday Times (South Africa) Fiction Prize 2001-2013
From wikipedia accessed 7/4/13
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize has been awarded by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times since 2001 to accompany their Alan Paton Award for works of non-fiction. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards. Winners for the fiction prize receive R75 000.
2013: Karen Jayes for For the Mercy of Water
2012: Michiel Heyns for Lost Ground
2011: Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood
2010: Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-between
2009: Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson
2008: Ceridwen Dovey for Blood Kin
2007: Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat
2006: Andrew Brown for Coldsleep Lullaby
2005: Justin Cartwright for The Promise of Happiness
2004: Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
2003: André P Brink for The Other Side of Silence
2002: Ivan Vladislavic for The Restless Supermarket
2001: Zakes Mda for The Heart of Redness
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize has been awarded by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times since 2001 to accompany their Alan Paton Award for works of non-fiction. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards. Winners for the fiction prize receive R75 000.
2013: Karen Jayes for For the Mercy of Water
2012: Michiel Heyns for Lost Ground
2011: Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood
2010: Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-between
2009: Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson
2008: Ceridwen Dovey for Blood Kin
2007: Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat
2006: Andrew Brown for Coldsleep Lullaby
2005: Justin Cartwright for The Promise of Happiness
2004: Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
2003: André P Brink for The Other Side of Silence
2002: Ivan Vladislavic for The Restless Supermarket
2001: Zakes Mda for The Heart of Redness
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Hurston/Wright Legacies for the Year (2005,2010)
The winners of the 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, award annually to authors of African descent for the year's best works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, are:
Fiction: I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett
Poetry (two winners):
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 by Haki R. Madhubuti
Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove
Nonfiction: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley
The 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, honoring books by writers of African descent, have gone to:
Fiction: Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale by Maryse Conde
Nonfiction: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux
Debut Fiction: Graceland by Chris Abani
Contemporary Fiction: A Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson
Fiction: I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett
Poetry (two winners):
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 by Haki R. Madhubuti
Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove
Nonfiction: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley
The 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, honoring books by writers of African descent, have gone to:
Fiction: Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale by Maryse Conde
Nonfiction: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis de Veaux
Debut Fiction: Graceland by Chris Abani
Contemporary Fiction: A Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson
Friday, September 10, 2010
Penguin Prize for African Writing (2010)
From Penguin SA accessed 9/10/10
On Saturday, 4 September 2010, Penguin Books announced the non-fiction and fiction winners of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing. This award seeks to highlight the diverse writing talent on the African continent and make new African fiction and non-fiction available to a wider readership. The authors win R50 000 each and publication by Penguin South Africa.
2010 Non-Fiction - Pius Adesanmi for You’re Not a Country, Africa!
2010 Fiction - Ellen Banda-Aaku for Patchwork
On Saturday, 4 September 2010, Penguin Books announced the non-fiction and fiction winners of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing. This award seeks to highlight the diverse writing talent on the African continent and make new African fiction and non-fiction available to a wider readership. The authors win R50 000 each and publication by Penguin South Africa.
2010 Non-Fiction - Pius Adesanmi for You’re Not a Country, Africa!
2010 Fiction - Ellen Banda-Aaku for Patchwork
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Caine Prize for African Writing (2000-2009)
2009 -
Finalists for the £10,000 (US$15,453) Caine Prize for African Writing--which honors a short story by an African writer published in English--are:
"The Life of Worm" by Ken Barris (South Africa), from New Writing from Africa 2009
"How Shall We Kill the Bishop?" by Lily Mabura (Kenya), from Wasafiri No. 53, Spring 2008
"Muzungu" by Namwali Serpell (Zambia), from The Best American Short Stories 2009
"Soulmates" by Alex Smith (South Africa), from New Writing from Africa 2009
"Stickfighting Days" by Olufemi Terry (Sierra Leone), from Chimurenga, Vol. 12/13 -- Winner!
The winner will be named July 5 and given the opportunity to take up a month's residence at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., as a writer-in-residence.
About the Prize
The Caine Prize for African Writing is named in memory of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc. He was Chairman of Africa 95, and Chairman of the Booker Prize management committee for almost 25 years. The Caine Prize is awarded to a work (a short story) by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.
The first prize was awarded in 2000, at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2000 in Harare, and the 2001 Prize at the Nairobi Book Fair in September 2001 The winner is announced at a dinner in Oxford in July.
2008 - South Africa’s Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for Poison from ‘Africa Pens’, published by Spearhead, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007. The Chair of Judges, Southbank Centre Artistic Director Jude Kelly, announced Henrietta as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner on Monday 7 July in the Bodleian Library in Oxford .
2007 - Uganda’s Monica Arac de Nyeko won the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing, for Jambula Tree from ‘African Love Stories’,
Caine Prize 2006
Mary Watson from South Africa won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa’s leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss, Kwela Books, 2004.
Caine Prize 2005
S.A. Afolabi from Nigeria won the sixth Caine Prize for African Writing for Monday Morning from Wasafiri, issue 41, spring 2004. His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, was published by Jonathan Cape earlier this year and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007."
Caine Prize 2004
Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe, won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ from Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003. Brian is the first winner of the Prize from Zimbabwe.
Brian has recently relocated to London and is working on his first projects outside Zimbabwe – Bubble Wrapping Artificial Shit, a novella that he has just started writing, and Jacaranda Skits, a music album of his unique and ‘whole-wheat’ sound that blends his writing abilities with southern African township jazz, ska and blues.
Caine Prize 2003
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was awarded the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story "Weight of Whispers", published in Kwani? in 2003 (www.kwani.org)
Caine Prize 2002
The Caine Prize 2002 was won by Binyavanga Wainaina, from Kenya, for his story "Discovering Home", published on the internet by G21Net in 2001.
Binyavanga has gone on to found the highly successful internet magazine "Kwani?" which was established to support the work of young Kenyan writers, and has produced some of the subsequent entries for the Caine Prize, including Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, winner of the 2003 prize.
Photo of Binyavanga Wainaina.
Caine Prize 2001
The winner of the 2001 Caine Prize for African Writing was the young Nigerian writer, Helon Habila, for his story "Love Poems" (taken from "Prison Stories", Epik Books, Lagos, 2000). Helon read literature at the University of Jos, and then lectured in English and Literature at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, from 1997 to 1999. He wrote for Hints Magazine, in Lagos, and his first book was a biography, Mai Kaltungo (1997). His poem, Another Age, came first in the MUSON Festival Poetry Competition 2000. Love Poems appears in Prison Stories (Epik Books, Lagos, 2000) an anthology of his short stories. He is now Arts Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Lagos.
Caine Prize 2000
The Caine Prize 2000 was won by Leila Aboulela, for her story "The Museum" (from "Opening Spaces", Heinemann, Oxford, 1999). Leila is a Sudanese writer living in Indonesia.Following graduation from the University of Khartoum in 1985, Aboulela travelled to Britain to study Statistics at the London School of Economics and she was living in Aberdeen at the time of her prize win, with her husband and three children. Aboulela’s stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and published in a number of anthologies, including ‘The Museum’ in Opening Spaces (Heinemann). She has also co-written a play for Radio 4 and her first novel, The Translator (Polygon) was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2000.
Finalists for the £10,000 (US$15,453) Caine Prize for African Writing--which honors a short story by an African writer published in English--are:
"The Life of Worm" by Ken Barris (South Africa), from New Writing from Africa 2009
"How Shall We Kill the Bishop?" by Lily Mabura (Kenya), from Wasafiri No. 53, Spring 2008
"Muzungu" by Namwali Serpell (Zambia), from The Best American Short Stories 2009
"Soulmates" by Alex Smith (South Africa), from New Writing from Africa 2009
"Stickfighting Days" by Olufemi Terry (Sierra Leone), from Chimurenga, Vol. 12/13 -- Winner!
The winner will be named July 5 and given the opportunity to take up a month's residence at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., as a writer-in-residence.
About the Prize
The Caine Prize for African Writing is named in memory of the late Sir Michael Caine, former Chairman of Booker plc. He was Chairman of Africa 95, and Chairman of the Booker Prize management committee for almost 25 years. The Caine Prize is awarded to a work (a short story) by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere.
The first prize was awarded in 2000, at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair 2000 in Harare, and the 2001 Prize at the Nairobi Book Fair in September 2001 The winner is announced at a dinner in Oxford in July.
2008 - South Africa’s Henrietta Rose-Innes has won the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing, described as Africa’s leading literary award, for Poison from ‘Africa Pens’, published by Spearhead, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007. The Chair of Judges, Southbank Centre Artistic Director Jude Kelly, announced Henrietta as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner on Monday 7 July in the Bodleian Library in Oxford .
2007 - Uganda’s Monica Arac de Nyeko won the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing, for Jambula Tree from ‘African Love Stories’,
Caine Prize 2006
Mary Watson from South Africa won the seventh Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa’s leading literary prize, for Jungfrau, from Moss, Kwela Books, 2004.
Caine Prize 2005
S.A. Afolabi from Nigeria won the sixth Caine Prize for African Writing for Monday Morning from Wasafiri, issue 41, spring 2004. His first collection of short stories, A Life Elsewhere, was published by Jonathan Cape earlier this year and his first novel is due to be published in April 2007."
Caine Prize 2004
Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe, won the fifth Caine Prize for African Writing for ‘Seventh Street Alchemy’ from Writing Still, Weaver Press, Harare 2003. Brian is the first winner of the Prize from Zimbabwe.
Brian has recently relocated to London and is working on his first projects outside Zimbabwe – Bubble Wrapping Artificial Shit, a novella that he has just started writing, and Jacaranda Skits, a music album of his unique and ‘whole-wheat’ sound that blends his writing abilities with southern African township jazz, ska and blues.
Caine Prize 2003
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was awarded the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story "Weight of Whispers", published in Kwani? in 2003 (www.kwani.org)
Caine Prize 2002
The Caine Prize 2002 was won by Binyavanga Wainaina, from Kenya, for his story "Discovering Home", published on the internet by G21Net in 2001.
Binyavanga has gone on to found the highly successful internet magazine "Kwani?" which was established to support the work of young Kenyan writers, and has produced some of the subsequent entries for the Caine Prize, including Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, winner of the 2003 prize.
Photo of Binyavanga Wainaina.
Caine Prize 2001
The winner of the 2001 Caine Prize for African Writing was the young Nigerian writer, Helon Habila, for his story "Love Poems" (taken from "Prison Stories", Epik Books, Lagos, 2000). Helon read literature at the University of Jos, and then lectured in English and Literature at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, from 1997 to 1999. He wrote for Hints Magazine, in Lagos, and his first book was a biography, Mai Kaltungo (1997). His poem, Another Age, came first in the MUSON Festival Poetry Competition 2000. Love Poems appears in Prison Stories (Epik Books, Lagos, 2000) an anthology of his short stories. He is now Arts Editor of Vanguard Newspaper, Lagos.
Caine Prize 2000
The Caine Prize 2000 was won by Leila Aboulela, for her story "The Museum" (from "Opening Spaces", Heinemann, Oxford, 1999). Leila is a Sudanese writer living in Indonesia.Following graduation from the University of Khartoum in 1985, Aboulela travelled to Britain to study Statistics at the London School of Economics and she was living in Aberdeen at the time of her prize win, with her husband and three children. Aboulela’s stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio and published in a number of anthologies, including ‘The Museum’ in Opening Spaces (Heinemann). She has also co-written a play for Radio 4 and her first novel, The Translator (Polygon) was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2000.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (2010)
Finalists for the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa include:
Nigerian Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani for her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You By Chance
Wale Okediran, a former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors
South African Kopano Matlwa for Tenants of the House and Coconut, 234NEXT reported. The winner will be announced April 30.
Nigerian Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani for her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You By Chance
Wale Okediran, a former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors
South African Kopano Matlwa for Tenants of the House and Coconut, 234NEXT reported. The winner will be announced April 30.
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