Olive Schreiner Prize
The Olive Schreiner Prize | |
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Awarded for | Novice drama, prose, or poetry in English |
Presented by | English Academy of Southern Africa |
Eligibility | Southern Africa |
Established | 1961 |
The Olive Schreiner Prize has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry.[1] It is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. It rewards promising novice work, by writers who are not yet regarded as "established" in the genre.[2] It rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose, and poetry. The prize for each genre is therefore triennial, and is open to work published in the three years since it was last awarded.[2]
The Prize was established in 1961 by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), and was transferred to the English Academy of Southern Africa in 1972.[3] The Prize was previously sponsored by Shell South Africa, and later by FNB,[4] and under SAAWK was open only to works published in South Africa or Rhodesia by a writer from one of those countries.[3] It is now open to works published in southern African countries by citizens of southern African countries generally.[2] It is not highly remunerated – by 1987, it was worth only R500,[5] and in 2010 was worth R5 000[6] – but is considered prestigious.[7]
As of 2018, the Prize could not be awarded to the same writer more than twice.[2] To date, this disqualifies only two writers: Rustum Kozain, who has won the poetry prize twice, and Zakes Mda, who has won for both drama and prose.
Prizewinners
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Year | Form | Winner | Ref. | |
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2020 | Drama | Nadia Davids | What Remains: A Play in One Act | [1] |
2019 | Poetry | Allan Kolski Horwitz | The Colours of Our Flag | [1] |
2018 | Prose | Bronwyn Law-Viljoen | The Printmaker | [1] |
Elleke Boehmer | The Shouting in the Dark | |||
2017 | Drama | Neil Coppen | Tin Bucket Drum | [1] |
2016 | Poetry | No award | [1] | |
2015 | Prose | Imran Garda | The Thunder that Roars | [8][9][10] |
Jill Nudelman | Inheriting the Earth | |||
2014 | Drama | Phillip M. Dikotla | Skierlik | [1] |
2013 | Poetry | Rustum Kozain | Groundwork | [11] |
2012 | Prose | Peter Dunseith | The Bird of Heaven | [1][12] |
2011 | Drama | Nicholas Spagnoletti | London Road | [1][13] |
Mike van Graan | Iago's Last Dance | |||
2010 | Poetry | Finuala Dowling | Notes from the Dementia Ward | [6] |
2009 | Prose | Michael Cawood Green | For The Sake of Silence | [14] |
2008 | Drama | No award | [15] | |
2007 | Poetry | Rustum Kozain | This Carting Life | [16] |
2006 | Prose | Jane Taylor | Of Wild Dogs | [17][18] |
Russel Brownlee | Garden of the Plagues | |||
2005 | Drama | John Kani | Nothing but the Truth | [1] |
2004 | Poetry | Isobel Dixon | Weather Eye | [1] |
2003 | Prose | Hugh Lewin | Bandiet out of Jail | [1] |
2002 | Drama | Xoli Norman | Hallelujah! | [1] |
2001 | Poetry | Mzi Mahola | When Rains Come | [1] |
2000 | Prose | Antjie Krog | Country of My Skull | [1] |
1999 | Drama | Moira Lovell | Bedtime Stories | [1] |
1998 | Poetry | Dan Wylie | The Road Out | [1] |
1997 | Prose | Zakes Mda | Ways of Dying | [1] |
1996 | Drama | Zakes Mda | The Nun's Romantic Story | [1] |
1995 | Poetry | Allan James | Morning Near Genadendal | [1] |
1994 | Prose | Deena Padayachee | What's Love Got to Do with It? | [1] |
1993 | Drama | No award | [1] | |
1992 | Poetry | Tatamkulu Afrika | Nine Lives | [1] |
1991 | Prose | Ivan Vladislavic | Missing Persons | [1] |
1990 | Drama | Norman Coombe | A Snake in the Garden | [1] |
1989 | Poetry | Kelwyn Sole | Blood of Our Silence | [1] |
1988 | Prose | John Conyngham | The Arrowing of the Cane | [1] |
1987 | Drama | No award | [1] | |
1986 | Poetry | Lionel Abrahams | Journal of a New Man | [1] |
1985 | Prose | Menan du Plessis | A State of Fear | |
1984 | Drama | Junction Avenue Theatre Company | Randlords and Rotgut | [19] |
1983 | Poetry | Chris Mann | New Shades | |
1982 | Prose | Rose Zwi | Another Year In Africa | |
1981 | Drama | No award | ||
1980 | Poetry | Patrick Cullinan | Today Is Not Different | [20] |
Chris van Wyk | It Is Time to Go Home | |||
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 Livingstone | 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 | [3] |
1970 | Prose | No award | [3] | |
1969 | Drama | No award | [3] | |
1968 | Poetry | Sydney Clouts | One Life | [3] |
1967 | Prose | M. F. C. Roebuck | Nyitso | [3] |
1966 | Drama | No award | [3] | |
1965 | Poetry | No award | [3] | |
1964 | Prose | Anna M. Louw | 20 Days That Autumn | [3] |
1963 | Drama | H. W. D. Manson | The Noose-Knot Ballad | [3] |
1962 | Prose | No award | [3] | |
1961 | Poetry | F. D. Sinclair | His work | [3] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "Awards and Prizes". English Academy of Southern Africa. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
- ^ a b c d Mulgrew, Nick (2018-08-20). "Enter The 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". PEN South Africa. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Akademiepryse 1909–". Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa". English Academy Review. 15 (1): 349–360. 1998-12-01. doi:10.1080/10131759885310181. ISSN 1013-1752.
- ^ Frankel, Norman (2016-01-08). The Grants Register 1985–1987. Springer. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-349-06829-6.
- ^ a b "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy's Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes". Sunday Times Books. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Hugh Lewin awarded Olive Schreiner Prize". The Mail & Guardian. 2003-10-24. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Literary awards: 'Tis the season to toast the best of local authors". The Mail & Guardian. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize for Groundwork". Sunday Times Books. 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards". Sunday Times Books. 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Literary awards 2011/2012 update" (PDF). Western Cape Government. 2012. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence". Sunday Times Books. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction". Sunday Times Books. 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ Loker, Byron (2007-01-04). "Russel Brownlee, Jane Taylor win Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". iBhuku. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "At the Junction". Wits University Press. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "Obituary: The warmth and laughter of Chris van Wyk". Mail & Guardian. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2021-11-23.