The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
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The Sunday Times Fiction Prize has been awarded by the South Africa
n 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.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n newspaper The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times (South Africa)
The Sunday Times is a popular South African Sunday newspaper. It has an audited circulation of 504,000 and a weekly readership of 3.2 million, making it the largest weekly newspaper in South Africa. Recently it was involved in exposing a corruption scandal involving the South African government's...
since 2001 to accompany their Alan Paton Award
Alan Paton Award
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...
for works of non-fiction. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.
Recipients
- 2010: Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-between
- 2009: Anne LandsmanAnne LandsmanAnne Landsman is a South African-born novelist. She is the author of The Devil's Chimney and The Rowing Lesson, for which she won the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize....
for The Rowing Lesson - 2008: Ceridwen DoveyCeridwen DoveyCeridwen Dovey is a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author.-Biography:Dovey was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and grew up between South Africa and Australia. Her parents derived her unusual name from one of the protagonists in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 Welsh novel,...
for Blood Kin - 2007: Marlene van NiekerkMarlene van NiekerkMarlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf. Her graphic and controversial descriptions of a poor Afrikaner family in Johannesburg brought her to the forefront of a post-apartheid society, still struggling to come to terms with all the changes in South...
for Agaat - 2006: Andrew Brown for Coldsleep Lullaby
- 2005: Justin CartwrightJustin CartwrightJustin Cartwright is a British novelist.He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and...
for The Promise of Happiness - 2004: Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
- 2003: André P BrinkAndré BrinkAndré Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
for The Other Side of Silence - 2002: 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 The Restless Supermarket - 2001: 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:...
for The Heart of Redness