Terry Kurgan and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu win the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards

The winners of the 2019 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced.
Terry Kurgan has won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction, for her book Everyone is Present: Essays on Photography, Family and Memory (Fourthwall Books), and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu has won the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, for her novel The Theory of Flight (Penguin Random House).
Each winner, picked from a shortlist of five books, receives R100,000.
Categories Fiction Non-fiction South Africa
Tags Alan Paton Award Barry Ronge Fiction Prize News Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Sunday Times Literary Awards Terry Kurgan The JRB The JRB Daily
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