Tag: Damon Galgut
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Natasha Brown, Damon Galgut on Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 shortlist
Natasha Brown and Damon Galgut are on the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022 announced on February 9, 2022. The Rathbones Folio Prize, worth £30,000, is a literary award currently sponsored by Rathbones Investment Management that first ran in 2014–2015. Previous winners have been George Saunders, Akhil Sharma, Hisham Matar, Richard Lloyd Parry, Raymond…
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Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021
Damon Galgut’s novel The Promise was announced the winner of the Booker Prize 2021 in a ceremony in London, UK on Thursday, November 3, 2021. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Since…
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Writers of African descent on Andrew Carnegie Medals 2022 longlists.
There are eight writers of African descent on the longlists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2022 announced on October 18, 2021. The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in…
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Damon Galgut, Nadifa Mohamed on Booker Prize 2021 shortlist.
Nadifa Mohamed and Damon Galgut are on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2021 announced on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. The Booker Prize for Fiction, worth £50,000, is a literary prize awarded annually for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. Since it started in 1969, it…
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Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 shortlist announced.
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 shortlist has been announced. The Africa regional shortlist featured Harriet Anena, Fred Khumalo, Cheryl Ntumy, Michelle Sacks, Efua Traoré, and Obi Umeozor. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction and open to Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over. Founded in…
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South African writers support their strays with new anthology
In 1985, American artists led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie came up with a song called We Are The World to help the people of Ethiopia who were going through a horrible drought. It is still one of the best examples of artists coming together to alleviate suffering. South African writers, many of them…
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2015: The winners
Jacob Dlamini and Damon Galgut were announced as the winners of this year’s Sunday Times Literary Awards at a gala ceremony at Summer Place in Sandton on Saturday night. Dlamini, a prominent author, and political commentator, received the 26th Alan Paton Award for his book Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid…
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Sunday Times Literature Prize 2015 shortlists out
The Sunday Times Literary Awards are one of the richest prizes for writers on the continent with winners in the two categories going home with R100 000. The awards are in two categories; the fiction prize is called the Barry Ronge Award and the nonfiction category is called the Alan Paton Award. The award is…