Awards
2017 Man Booker Prize longlist announced
The longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced.
African perspectives on gender, social justice and sexuality: Africa in Dialogue interviews the Gerald Kraak Award shortlist
Africa in Dialogue has published an online collection of interviews with all the writers and artists shortlisted for the 2016 Gerald Kraak Award.
2017 Writivism Prize shortlists announced – with stories from South Africa, Cameroon, Malawi and Nigeria
The shortlists for the 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize and the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Non-fiction have been announced!
Etisalat Prize for Literature call for entries and judging panel announced
The new judging panel for the Pan-African Etisalat Prize for Literature has been announced.
Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich win Sunday Times Literary Awards
Zakes Mda and Greg Marinovich were announced as the winners of the 2017 Sunday Times Literary Awards last night.
The winners of the Sunday Times Literary Awards to be announced on Saturday – see the shortlists
The winners of the Sunday Times Literary Awards will be announced on Saturday, June 24. The winners of the Alan Paton Award …
Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83 wins 2017 Internationaler Literaturpreis
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and translators Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller are the winners of the ninth Internationaler Literaturpreis for translated contemporary literatures for the German translation of Tram 83.
Israeli author David Grossman wins Man Booker International Prize for A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Bestselling Israeli writer David Grossman has won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for his ‘ambitious high-wire act of a novel’, A Horse Walks Into a Bar.
Writers and photographers: The Gerald Kraak Award and Anthology call for submissions
An award and anthology on the topics of gender, human rights and sexuality, for writers and photographers across Africa.
Jowhor Ile wins Etisalat Prize for Literature for his novel And After Many Days
Nigerian author Jowhor Ile has won the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his novel And After Many Days.
2017 Caine Prize shortlist announced
The five-writer shortlist for the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced by Chair of judges, award winning author, poet and editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes. The list includes a former Caine Prize shortistee and features a story translated
2017 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize shortlist announced
After months of evaluation and deliberation it is finally time to reveal the shortlist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, in association with Porcupine Ridge. The winner, who will receive R100 000, will be announced on Saturday June 24.
2017 Alan Paton Award for non-fiction shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction has been announced!
H Melt and Victor Yates win Lambda Literary’s Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Lambda Literary, a nonprofit organisation promoting LGBTQ literature in the United States, has announced the recipients of the 2017 Judith A Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers.
William Kentridge wins the Princess of Asturias Award, Spain’s most prestigious art prize
William Kentridge has been awarded Spain’s most prestigious art prize, the Princess of Asturias award.
Mongane Wally Serote to receive honorary doctorate from University of Johannesburg
Struggle poet and novelist Professor Mongane Wally Serote will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg.
2017 Man Booker International Prize shortlist announced
The 2017 Man Booker International Prize shortlist of six books has been revealed.
Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid longlisted for 2017 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year
Big hitters including Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, feature on the longlist for the most prestigious crime writing prize in the country.
2017 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist announced
Three African authors have been shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award – the ‘world’s richest literary prize’.
The Baileys Women’s Prize Shortlist: ‘A Wonderful Liberation’
‘The constraint is a liberation,’ says film producer Tessa Ross, whose leadership of the Baileys judges for 2017 is honoring women fiction writers from around the world.