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And the Fiona Goes to – Fiona Snyckers Lists the SA Books She Believes Deserve Awards

by Luso on Nov 2nd, 2012
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If she could give out awards, Fiona Snyckers, author of the Trinity series, would award five South African books with literary prizes. She believes these five books, Men of the South by Zukiswa Wanner, African Delights by Siphiwo Mahala, Hear Me Alone by Thando Mgqolozana, Things I Thought I Knew by Kathryn White and Snake by Tracey Farren have been overlooked. In her ThoughtLeader column, Snyckers sets out the merits of each work.

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In 2011 the literary awards season gave rise to hopes that the establishment was finally starting to recognise some of our younger and more innovative writers. Cynthia Jele’s Happiness is a 4-Letter Word and Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood both enjoyed outstanding critical success, raking in a bouquet of wins between them.

This year the winners have been a great deal paler, maler and older. One could almost be excused for thinking that there were no exciting releases by young black authors at all in 2012. This would be crashingly inaccurate, 2012 was a year that saw some of the most excellent and innovative writing of the last 20 years. And while those novels that did win awards were highly deserving of their honours, I am puzzled by those that were overlooked.

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  • <a href="http://helenmoffett.book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Helen</a>
    Helen
    November 4th, 2012 @20:35 #
     
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    Hurrah for the Fiona! I think this should become an annual award: the Fiona list of local books that should have won awards and didn't.

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  • <a href="http://book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Ben - Editor</a>
    Ben - Editor
    November 5th, 2012 @07:48 #
     
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    Hear, hear :)

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