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Awards Nonfiction South Africa

Alan Paton Award for nonfiction 2018 longlist announced

The Alan Paton Award for nonfiction 2018 longlist, part of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 has been announced. Alan Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist whose most famous work includes the novels Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope. In 1989, the Sunday Times newspaper in his country of […]

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Awards Fiction South Africa

The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist announced

The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 longlist for the Barry Rouge Fiction Prize was announced on April 1, 2018. In 1989, South African newspaper The Sunday Times started a new literary prize they called The Sunday Times Literary Prize. We aren’t sure if they were seeing what was happening as their country was in the […]

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Book Reviews Fiction South Africa

A review of Angela Makhokwa’s Black Widow Society

Book: Black Widow Society Author: Angela Makholwa Publisher: Pan Macmillan Year of Publication: 2013 Number of pages: 278 Buy your own copy of Black Widow Society The last book I read by South African writer Angela Makholwa was The Thirtieth Candle and I nearly missed out on a major world carnival as I sat on […]