Alert! The shortlists for the 2016 South African Literary Awards have been announced.
18 authors from a total of 132 submissions have been shortlisted and the winners will be announced on Monday, 7 November, at a prestigious function at Unisa.
On the same day, wRite Associates will host the fifth Africa Century International African Writers Conference, before the ceremony. This year, the SALAs have partnered with the Unisa Department of English Studies in delivering both the awards ceremony and the Conference.
The SALAs were founded in 2005 by wRite Associates and the Department of Arts and Culture.
This year, the awards will honour the memory of TT Cloete and Chris van Wyk with Posthumous Literary Awards, while Ingrid Winterbach and Professor Johan Lenake are nominated for Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards.
The SALA Adjudication Panel said:
We are excited that South African literature continues to flourish, with many young writers coming into the scene, sharing platforms with their more established and experienced counterparts, however, we are saddened and concerned that we still see less and less of works written in African languages.
Going forward, the SALA Adjudication Panel recommends literary workshops and symposia with stakeholders, especially writers, publishers and editors, to address concerns regarding the standard and quality of some of the work, especially in African languages, that SALA has been receiving over time. This would be in line with one of the objectives of SALA, ‘to promote and preserve all our languages’.
We congratulate the 2016 nominees for their sterling work and keeping South Africa’s literary heritage alive.
The SALAs aim to “pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as groundbreaking producers and creators of literature”, as well as to “celebrate literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems and philosophies and art as inscribed and preserved in all the languages of South Africa, particularly the official languages”.
The 2016 South African Literary Awards nominees:
Posthumous Literary Award
TT Cloete – Body of work
Chris van Wyk – Body of work
Poetry Award
Gilbert Gibson, Vry-
Athol Williams, Bumper Cars
Arja Salafranca, Beyond Touch
Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award
Danie Marais, Pruimtwak en skaduboksers
Sandra Hill, UnSettled and Other Stories
Literary Translators Award
Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke, Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of André Brink and Ingrid Jonker
Zirk van den Berg, Halfpad een ding
Kirby van der Merwe, ’n Huis vir Ester
Lifetime Achievement Literary Award
Ingrid Winterbach – Body of work
Prof Johan Lenake – Body of work
K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award
Willem Anker, Buys – ’n Grensroman
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho, The Violent Gestures of Life
Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine
First-time Published Author Award
Francois Smith, Kamphoer
Ferial Haffajee, What If There Were No Whites In South Africa?
Creative Non-Fiction Award
Carel van der Merwe, Donker stroom
Jacob Dlamini, Askari
Chairperson’s Award
Recipient to be announced at the Award Ceremony – Body of work
Ends
Book details
- Dit kom van ver af: ‘n Storieverskeidenheid by TT Cloete
EAN: 9780620290050
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Karnaval en lent by TT Cloete
Book homepage
EAN: 9780624067740
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Shirley, Goodness & Mercy by Chris van Wyk
EAN: 9781770102385
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Vry- by Gilbert Gibson
Book homepage
EAN: 9780798170536
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Bumper Cars by Athol Williams
EAN: 9780992723873
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Beyond Touch by Arja Salafranca
Book homepage
EAN: 9781920590543
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Pruimtwak en skaduboksers: Rubrieke, heildronke en nagedagtes by Danie Marais
Book homepage
EAN: 9780624073277
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- UnSettled and Other Stories by Sandra Hill
Book homepage
EAN: 9781928215141
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Flame in the Snow: The Love Letters of André Brink and Ingrid Jonker by Leon de Kock and Karin Schimke, edited by Francis Galloway
Book homepage
EAN: 9781415208786
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Halfpad een ding by Zirk van den Berg
Book homepage
EAN: 9780143538639
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- ’n Huis vir Ester by Carol Campbell, translated by Kirby van der Merwe
Book homepage
EAN: 9781415207413
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Esther’s House by Carol Campbell
Book homepage
EAN: 9781415207406
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Vlakwater by Ingrid Winterbach
Book homepage
EAN: 9780798170475
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- It Might Get Loud by Ingrid Winterbach, edited by Michiel Heyns
Book homepage
EAN: 9780798167512
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Buys – ’n Grensroman by Willem Anker
Book homepage
EAN: 9780795706936
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- The Violent Gestures of Life by Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho
Book homepage
EAN: 9781869142780
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Sweet Medicine by Panashe Chigumadzi
EAN: 9781928337126
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Kamphoer by Francois Smith
Book homepage
EAN: 9780624065517
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- What If There Were No Whites In South Africa? by Ferial Haffajee
Book homepage
EAN: 9781770104402
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Donker stroom: Eugène Marais en die Anglo-Boereoorlog by Carel van der Merwe
Book homepage
EAN: 9780624073420
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle by Jacob Dlamini
Book homepage
EAN: 9781431409754
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
- Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch by Chris van Wyk
EAN: 9781770101739
Find this book with BOOK Finder!