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.[1] The prize rotates annually which rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry.
Award winners
- 2014 Drama: Philip Dikotla, Skierlik[1]
- 2013 Prose: Peter Dunseith, The Bird of Heaven[2]
- 2012 Drama: Nicholas Spagnoletti, London Road[3]
- 2011 Drama: No Award[4]
- 2010 Poetry: Finuala Dowling, Notes from the Dementia Ward[5]
- 2009 Prose: Michael Cawood Green, For The Sake of Silence[6]
- 2008 Drama: No Award[7]
- 2007 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, This Carting Life[8]
- 2006 Prose: Jane Taylor, Of Wild Dogs; Russel Brownlee, Garden of the Plagues[9]
- 2005 Drama: John Kani, Nothing but the Truth
- 2004 Poetry: Isobel Dixon, Weather Eye
- 2003 Prose: Hugh Lewin, Bandiet out of Jail
- 2002 Drama: Xoli Norman, Halleluja
- 2001 Poetry: Mzi Mahola, When Rains Come
- 2000 Prose: Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull
- 1999 Drama: Moira Lovell, Bedtime Stories
- 1998 Poetry: Dan Wylie, The Road Out
- 1997 Prose: Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying
- 1996 Drama: Zakes Mda, 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 Afrika, Nine Lives
- 1991 Prose: Ivan Vladislavic, 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 Abrahams, 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 Mann, New Shades
- 1982 Prose: Rose Zwi, Another Year In Africa
- 1981 Drama: No Award
- 1980 Poetry: Patrick Cullinan, 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 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
- 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
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Academy Awards", English Academy of South Africa.
- ↑ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards", Books Live, 2 October 2013.
- ↑ "Pringle and Schreiner awards announced", English Academy of Southern Africa, 12 June 2012.
- ↑ "Kelwyn Sole Wins Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry for 'Cape Town™'", Books Live, 12 June 2012.
- ↑ "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy’s Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes", Books Live, 17 November 2010.
- ↑ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence", Books Live, 21 April 2010.
- ↑ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction", Books Live, 20 October 2008.
- ↑ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 23 January 2008.
- ↑ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 8 January 2007.
