Olive Schreiner Prize
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The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa.
Award winners
- 2010 Poetry Finuala DowlingFinuala DowlingFinuala Dowling is a South African poet and writer.The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Town before lecturing in English at the University of South Africa for eight years...
Notes from the Dementia Ward - 2009 Prose Michael Cawood GreenMichael Cawood GreenMichael Cawood Green is a South African born academic and writer.As a researcher he is most noted for his monograph, Novel Histories which explores the uses of history in South African fiction...
For The Sake of Silence - 2008 Drama No Award
- 2007 Poetry Rustum KozainRustum KozainRustum Kozain is a South African poet and writer.He was born in Paarl. After he matriculated, he studied at the .From 1994 - 1995 he attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio on a Fullbright Scholarship....
This Carting Life - 2006 Prose Jane TaylorJane Taylor (South Africa)Colleen Jane Taylor is a South African writer and academic.In 1987 she and David Bunn co-edited From South Africa , an anthology which documents the Years of Emergency in the last decade of Apartheid in that country, through new photography, graphics, literature and essays.In 1993, she presented a...
Of Wild Dogs, Russel Brownlee - Garden of the Plagues - 2005 Drama John KaniJohn KaniBonsile John Kani is a South African actor, director and playwright.He was born in New Brighton, South Africa.Kani joined The Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.These...
Nothing but the Truth - 2004 Poetry Isobel DixonIsobel Dixon- Life :Born and raised in South Africa and living now in Cambridge, Isobel Dixon works in London as a literary agent, She has published several anthologies. In 2000 she won the South African SANLAM Award for Poetry. In 2004 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize and the Oxfam Poems for a Better Future...
Weather Eye - 2003 Prose Hugh Lewin Bandiet out of Jail
- 2002 Drama Xoli Norman Halleluja
- 2001 Poetry Mzi MaholaMzi MaholaMzi Mahola was born on 12 February 1949 as Mzikayise Winston Mahola.Mzi Mahola is his nom de plume. He is a South African writer and poet.-Biography:...
When Rains Come - 2000 Prose 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 :...
Country of My Skull - 1999 Drama Moira Lovell Bedtime Stories
- 1998 Poetry Dan Wylie The Road Out
- 1997 Prose Zakes MdaZakes MdaZakes Mda , legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda , is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays.-Early life and education:...
Ways of Dying - 1996 Drama Zakes MdaZakes MdaZakes Mda , legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda , is a South African novelist, poet and playwright. He has won major South African and British literary awards for his novels and plays.-Early life and education:...
The Nun's Romantic Story - 1995 Poetry Allan James Morning near Genadendal
- 1994 Prose Deena Padayachee What's Love Got to Do with It?
- 1993 Drama No Award
- 1992 Poetry Tatamkulu AfrikaTatamkulu AfrikaTatamkulu Afrika was a South African poet and writer.-Writing:...
Nine Lives - 1991 Prose 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...
Missing Persons - 1990 Drama Norman Coombe A Snake in the Garden
- 1989 Poetry Kelwyn Sole Blood of Our Silence
- 1988 Prose John Conyngham The Arrowing of the Cane
- 1987 Drama No Award
- 1986 Poetry Lionel AbrahamsLionel AbrahamsLionel Abrahams was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life...
Journal of a New Man - 1985 Prose Menan du Plessis A State of Fear
- 1985 Drama Junction Avenue Theatre Company Randlords and Rotgut
- 1983 Poetry Chris MannChris MannChris Mann is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."...
New Shades - 1982 Prose Rose ZwiRose ZwiRose Zwi is a South African writer best known for her work about the immigrants in that country. Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, to Jewish refugees from Lithuania, her family moved to South Africa when she was a young girl...
Another Year In Africa - 1981 Drama No Award
- 1980 Poetry Patrick CullinanPatrick CullinanPatrick Roland Cullinan was a South African poet and biographer.He was born in Pretoria into a significant diamond-mining family and attended Charterhouse School and Oxford University in England...
Today Is Not Different - 1979 Prose Ahmed Essop The Hajji And Other Stories
- 1978 Drama John Cundill Redundant & Waiting
- 1977 Poetry Robert Greig Talking Bull
- 1976 Prose Sheila Roberts Outside Life's Feast
- 1975 Drama Douglas LivingstoneDouglas LivingstoneDouglas Livingstone may refer to* Douglas Livingstone , South African poet born in Malaya * Douglas Livingstone , English actor and writer for television*Doug Livingstone, Scottish footballer and manager...
A Rhino For the Boardroom - 1974 Poetry Oswald Mtshali The Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
- 1973 Prose Sheila Fugard The Castaway
- 1972 Drama No Award
- 1971 Poetry Elias Pater In Praise of Night
- 1970 Prose No Award
- 1969 Drama No Award
- 1968 Poetry Sydney Clouts One Life
- 1967 Prose M F C Roebuck Nyitso: a novel of West Africa
- 1966 Drama No Award
- 1965 Poetry No Award
- 1964 Prose Anna M Louw 20 Days That Autumn