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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 shortlists announced

James Murua May 16, 2016 No Comments Achmat Dangor Alan Patton Award Alastair Bruce Barry Ronge Prize Boy on the Wire Charles van Onselen Claire Robertson Craig Higginson David Attwell Green Lion Henrietta Rose-Innes Hunger Eats a Man Jacana Media JM Coetzee and the Life of Writing Jonathan Ball Publishers Khaya Dlanga Kwela Books Macmillan MF Books/Jacana Media Nkosinathi Sithole Papwa: Golf’s Lost Legend by Maxine Case Penguin Picador Africa Pumla Dineo Gqola Rape: A South African Nightmare Showdown at the Red Lion Sunday Times Literary Awards Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 The Dream House The Magistrate of Gower To Quote Myself: A Memoir Umuzi

The shortlists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016 were announced over the weekend. There are two awards available to the writers in the awards;…

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Awards South Africa

Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 shortlists out

James Murua May 17, 2015 No Comments A Man of Good Hope Arctic Summer Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-apartheid Struggle Damon Galgut DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism Elaine Proctor Imraan Coovadia Jacana Media Jacob Dlamini Jonathan Ball Publishers Jonny Steinberg Lindie Koorts Lost and Found in Johannesburg Maria Phalime Mark Gevisser October Postmortem: the Doctor Who Walked Away Quercus Sunday Times Literature Prize Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 Tafelberg Tales of the Metric System The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga The Savage Hour Umuzi Zoë Wicomb

The Sunday Times Literary Awards are one of richest prizes for writers on the continent with winners in the two categories going home with R100…

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