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[2] The prize was restructured in 2015 when fiction and non-fiction awards were brought together as the Sunday Times Literary Awards; the money for each prize was increased, from R75 000 to R100 000, [3] and the Fiction Prize was renamed the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize in honour of Barry Ronge, a renowned South African journalist who was one of ...
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. This is a list of notable literary awards awarded in South Africa.
In 2015, the Sunday Times renamed its prize for South African literature to the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] During the 1990s and 2000s Ronge was a film critic on M-Net where worked on a number of movie review shows most notably Front Row, Revue Plus and Cinemagic with Barry Ronge .
The South African Literary Awards (SALA) have been awarded annually since 2005 to exceptional South African writers. They "pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as ground-breaking producers and creators of literature" and celebrate "literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems, philosophies and art."
Yewande Omotoso was born in Bridgetown, Barbados; [9] and within a year of her birth went with her Barbadian mother, Nigerian father and two older brothers to Nigeria. She grew up in Ile-Ife, Osun State, until 1992, when the family moved to South Africa [10] [11] after her father took an academic appointment with the University of the Western Cape. [12]
In June, the usual iteration of the Africa Prize will also go ahead, during which four finalists will battle it out for a £25,000 ($31,600) prize. Pelebox aims to cut down the time that patients ...
The Prince of Wales will have a high-level meeting with South Africa’s president during a week of events in Cape Town highlighting the royal’s Earthshot Prize.
The Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction; The MER Prizes for illustrated children’s books and youth literature; The Elisabeth Eybers Prize for poetry. The Jan Rabie Rapport Prize, for debut works in Afrikaans, was awarded annually at the same awards ceremony as the Media24 prizes from 2004 to 2014, but was open to all South African publishers.