Alan Paton Award
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The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg
weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity. The award is named for Alan Paton
, author of Cry, The Beloved Country
. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity. The award is named for Alan Paton
Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.-Family:Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province , the son of a minor civil servant. After attending Maritzburg College, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Natal in his hometown, followed...
, author of Cry, The Beloved Country
Cry, The Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. It was first published in New York City in 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons and in London by Jonathan Cape; noted American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there...
. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
The Sunday Times Fiction Prize has been awarded by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times since 2001 to accompany their Alan Paton Award for works of non-fiction...
. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Recipients
- 2011 – Ronnie KasrilsRonnie KasrilsRonald Kasrils is a South African politician. He was Minister for Intelligence Services from 27 April 2004 to 25 September 2008...
for The Unlikely Secret Agent - 2010 – Albie SachsAlbie SachsAlbie Sachs was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009...
for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law - 2009 – Peter HarrisPeter HarrisPeter Harris , popularly known as Blu Peter, is an electronic dance music record producer and disc jockey from South Wales who pioneered the Nu-NRG music genre in the late 1990s...
for In a Different Time - 2008 – Mark GevisserMark GevisserMark Gevisser is a South African author and journalist best known for his biography of Thabo Mbeki, his country's second democratically-elected president....
for Thabo Mbeki - The Dream Deferred - 2007 – Ivan VladislavicIvan VladislavicIvan Vladislaviċ is a South African short story writer and novelist of Croatian origin. He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and social studies editor at Ravan Press...
for Portrait with Keys - 2006 – Jointly awarded to
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- Edwin CameronEdwin CameronEdwin Cameron is a South African Rhodes scholar and current Constitutional Court justice. Cameron served as a Supreme Court of Appeal judge from 2000 to 2008. He was the first senior South African official to state publicly that he was living with HIV/AIDS...
for Witness to AIDS - Adam LevinAdam LevinAdam Levin is an American fiction author. His short fiction has been published in places like Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Tin House. Currently, he resides in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the School of the Art Institute...
for AidSafari- 2005 – Jonny SteinbergJonny SteinbergJonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar. In the mid-1990s he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University's Balliol college, from which he graduated with a doctorate in political theory. He returned to South Africa in 1998 and worked for the national daily...
for The Number - 2004 – Pumla Gobodo-MadikizelaPumla Gobodo-MadikizelaPumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a South African psychologist who served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She received her undergraduate education from Fort Hare University and graduate education at Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town, with a fellowship at Harvard University....
for A Human Being Died That NightA Human Being Died That NightA Human Being Died That Night is a book that was written by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, and was published in 2003.The book is Pumla's account of her interviews with state-sanctioned mass murderer Eugene De Kock from the time of apartheid in South Africa... - 2003 – Jonny SteinbergJonny SteinbergJonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar. In the mid-1990s he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University's Balliol college, from which he graduated with a doctorate in political theory. He returned to South Africa in 1998 and worked for the national daily...
for Midlands - 2002 – Jonathan KaplanJonathan Kaplan (writer)Jonathan Kaplan in a South Africa-born medical doctor and writer. He received his medical training in South Africa, Great Britain, and the United States. He is the author of two autobiographical books on war surgery in developing countries and related matters...
for The Dressing Station - 2001 – Henk van WoerdenHenk van WoerdenHenk van Woerden was a Dutch painter and writer with close ties to South Africa.-Biography:He was born in Leiden. In 1956 he emigrated with his family to Cape Town, South Africa. Van Woerden matriculated in 1964 at the Fine Arts faculty of the University of Cape Town...
for A Mouthful of Glass - 2000 – Anthony SampsonAnthony SampsonAnthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford and served with the Royal Navy from 1944-47. During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa...
for Mandela: The Authorised BiographyMandela: The Authorised BiographyMandela: The Authorised Biography is a study of Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, by the late journalist Anthony Sampson.... - 1999 – Jointly awarded to
- 2005 – Jonny Steinberg
- Antjie KrogAntjie KrogAntjie Krog, born October 23, 1952 in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, is a prominent South African poet, academic and writer. In 2004 she joined the Arts faculty of the University of the Western Cape.- Early life :...
for Country of My SkullCountry of My SkullCountry of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission... - Stephen Clingman for Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary
- 1998 – John Reader for Africa: A Biography of a Continent
- 1997 – Charles van OnselenCharles van OnselenProfessor Charles van Onselen is a researcher and historian, based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He resides in Johannesburg.He was formerly employed at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he headed the Institute of Advanced Social Research...
for The Seed is MineThe Seed is MineThe Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 , written by Charles van Onselen, is a profound social history of one man and his struggle in a racially divided South Africa... - 1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya
- 1995 – Nelson MandelaNelson MandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
for Long Walk to FreedomLong Walk to Freedom (book)Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiographical work written by Nelson Mandela, and published in 1995 by Little Brown & Co. The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison. Mandela was once regarded as a terrorist but he is now regarded as uncontroversial... - 1994 – Breyten BreytenbachBreyten BreytenbachBreyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.-Biography:Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas...
for Return to Paradise - 1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal
- 1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa
- 1991 – Albie SachsAlbie SachsAlbie Sachs was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009...
for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter - 1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise
- 1989 – Marq de VilliersMarq de VilliersMarq de Villiers, CM is an award-winning Canadian writer and journalist. He now chiefly writes non-fiction books on scientific topics. In the past he also worked as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent.-Biography:...
for White Tribe Dreaming
- Edwin Cameron
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