Tag: Sunday Times Literary Awards

  • Alan Paton Award for Nonfiction 2018 longlist announced

    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…

  • Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2017

    Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2017

    Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich are the winners of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2017. The Sunday Times Literary Awards are composed of two awards, fiction and non-fiction, given by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times worth R100,000 to the winners. The awards are the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (formerly Sunday Times Fiction Prize…

  • Pumla Dineo Gqola, Nkosinathi Sithole win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016

    Pumla Dineo Gqola, Nkosinathi Sithole win Sunday Times Literary Awards 2016

    Pumla Dineo Gqola and Nkosinathi Sithole are the winners of the Sunday Times Literary Awards 2015 in a ceremony in Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa on 25th June 2016. They each go home with R100,000. Gqola a professor of African Literature at Wits University won the nonfiction category known as the Alan Paton Award for her…