Dominique Botha has been signed to London literary agency Blake Friedmann by Isobel Dixon.
Blake Friedmann gave Botha a warm welcome on their website, praising her “amazing run of prizes”:
[N]new client Dominique Botha virtually swept the board of South African prizes, with her autobiographical debut novel FALSE RIVER, which she wrote both in English and Afrikaans (as VALSRIVIER). It won the Eugéne Marais Prize 2014 for debut work awarded by the South African Academy for Science and Arts, the Jan Rabie-Rapport Prize 2014 for debut or early work in Afrikaans, the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for English Literature 2014, the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Afrikaans Literature 2014, and was a finalist in the Sunday Times Literary Prize 2014, the Kyknet Rapport Prize and the 2014 Versindaba Lykgedig Competition.
Dixon hinted at her new signings late last year:
Nice to be ending the work year closing new deals for authors, to be announced in the New Year!
— Isobel Dixon (@isobeldixon) December 22, 2014
South African-born Dixon is a director of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, and an author, poet and translator in her own right. Among her clients are Finuala Dowling, Gus Ferguson, Lyndall Gordon, Etienne van Heerden, Michiel Heyns, Zakes Mda, Deon Meyer, Marlene van Niekerk, Margie Orford, SA Partridge, Henrietta Rose-Innes and Ivan Vladislavic.
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