Shortlists for the 2012/2013 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English
Alert! Imraan Coovadia has been nominated twice for this year’s main University of Johannesburg Prize – for his novel The Institute of Taxi Poetry and for his collection of essays, titled Transformations.
Coovadia’s books will be up against Ken Barris’ Life Underwater for the coveted R65 000 main UJ Prize. The UJ Prizes, in both the “main” and “debut” categories, are given without respect to genre, which makes the double nomination for Coovadia possible.
In the debut category, Steven Boykey Sidley’s Entanglement, Ashraf Kagee’s Khalil’s Journey and Shafinaaz Hassim’s SoPhia will compete for the R25 000 prize.
Both Coovadia and Sidley’s books have also been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize this year.
Last year, Craig Higginson won the main UJ Prize for The Landscape Painter and Terry Westby-Nunn scooped the UJ Debut Prize for The Sea of Wise Insects.
The winners for 2013 will be announced later this month, with the awards ceremony taking place later in the year.
Press release
Some exciting names are on the shortlist for the UJ Prizes for South African Writing in English. The shortlist has been compiled from approximately 70 submitted works.
The panel of seven adjudicators has agreed on a shortlist of possible winners:
Debut
Entanglement by Steven Boykey Sidley
Khalil’s Journey by Ashraf Kagee
SoPhia by Shafinaaz Hassim
Main Prize
Life Underwater by Ken Barris
The Institute of Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia
Transformations by Imraan Coovadia
The prize winners will be announced in June 2013 and the prizes will be presented at a gala ceremony later in the year.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In 2006, the University of Johannesburg instituted two prizes:
The UJ Prize for the best creative work in English; and
The UJ Prize for the best creative debut work in English.
The value of the prizes is:
The UJ Prize: R65 000
The UJ Debut Prize: R25 000
Requirements:
The UJ Prize is awarded to the writer of the best original creative work in English published in the previous calendar year. The UJ Debut Prize is awarded to the writer of the best original creative debut work in English published in the previous calendar year.
The selection panel
The selection panel comprised the following seven members:
Four members of the Department of English, UJ
Two academics from other universities
One member from the media industry or publishing
For the adjudication of the 2012 prizes the panel was as follows:
Four members from the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg
Karen Scherzinger
Craig MacKenzie
Ronit Frenkel
Jane Starfield
One member of media industry or writer
Chris Thurman (Wits)
Two academics from other institutions:
Betty Govinden (UKZN)
Chris Ouma (UCT)
Genre
We decided not to link the prizes to a specific genre. This may make the evaluation more difficult in the sense that, for example, a volume of poetry, a novel and a biographical work must be measured against one another, but the idea was to open the prize to as many forms of creative writing as possible.
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- Entanglement by Steven Boykey Sidley
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- Khalil’s Journey: - by Ashraf Kagee
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- SoPhia by Shafinaaz Hassim
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- Life Underwater by Ken Barris
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- The Institute for Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia
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- Transformations: Essays by Imraan Coovadia
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