awards
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American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has been named the winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize – the world’s largest and most prestigious literary award for writers aged 39 and under – for her debut poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name. Selected unanimously by this year’s judging panel, the collection traces the turbulent, often…
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South Africa can claim to have some of the best writers around. From books on motherhood to shattering exposes of the country’s colonial and racist past, from stories on the history of the Kruger National Park to the social movement creating a “pink line” around the planet, there is much to celebrate, even in the…
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David Diop has won the prestigious International Booker Prize for translated fiction with his novel At Night All Blood Is Black about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I. The Paris-born writer is the first French winner of the prize, given for a book translated into English, and shares the award with…
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Congratulations to all the writers and publishers whose works are on this year’s Sunday Times/CNA Literary Awards lists for fiction and non-fiction. The abundance of talent in this country is something to celebrate. Fiction selections Barbara Adair: Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight … (Modjaji Books) Terry-Ann Adams: Those Who Live in Cages (Jacana Media) Mia…
