The 2014 South African Literary Award (SALA) Winners
Alert! The winners of the 2014 South African Literary Awards (SALAs) have been revealed.
The SALAs were founded in 2005 by the wRite associates and the Department of Arts and Culture, to celebrate literary excellence in all the languages of South Africa.
Claire Robertson, who won this year’s Sunday Times Fiction Prize, won the First-time Published Author Award, and Books LIVE community members Makhosazana Xaba and Sihle Khumalo were also rewarded for their literary efforts.
Nuruddin Farah and Njabulo Ndebele received Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards, while Mbulelo Mzamane received a Posthumous Literary Award.
FIRST-TIME PUBLISHED AUTHOR AWARD
Claire Robertson, The Spiral House (English, Umuzi Publishers)
NADINE GORDIMER SHORT STORY AWARD
Makhosazana Xaba, Running and Other Stories (English, Modjaji books)
and
Reneilwe Malatji, Love Interrupted (English, Modjaji Books)
K SELLO DUIKER MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD
Jamala Safari, The Great Agony and Pure laughter of the Gods (English, Umuzi Publishing)
LITERARY TRANSLATORS AWARD
Nhlanhla Maake, Malefane (Sesotho/English, Ekaam Books)
POETRY AWARD
Thandi Sliepen, The Turtle Dove Told Me (English, Modjaji Books)
and
Themba Patrick Magaisa, Mihloti ya Tingana (Xitsonga, published by TP Magaisa)
CREATIVE NON-FICTION AWARD
Sihle Khumalo, Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu (English, Umuzi Publishers)
POSTHUMOUS LITERARY AWARD
Mbulelo Vizikhungo
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT LITERARY AWARDS
Nuruddin Farah and Njabulo Ndebele
Tweets from the event:
And it's a hat trick! Sihle Khumalo's Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu takes the non-fiction SALA @RandomStruik
— Umuzi (@Umuzites) November 7, 2014
Am so proud of @Umuzites ! A hat trick of SALA awards. What an incredible tear of awards. Please, South Africa, read your talented authors!
— Steve Connolly (@SAbookman) November 8, 2014
So three Modjaji authors won SALA awards last night, Makhosazana Xaba, Reneilwe Malatji and Thandi Sliepen -… http://t.co/01fUhN8BMe
— Colleen Higgs (@modjaji_bks) November 8, 2014
That's the end of the 9th South African Literary Awards. Probably the only awards that acknowledge the spectrum of South African languages.
— CA Davids (@ca_davids) November 7, 2014
Book details
- The Spiral House by Claire Robertson
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EAN: 9781415203842
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- Running by Makhosazana Xaba
EAN: 9781920590161
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- Love Interrupted by Reneilwe Malatji
EAN: 9781920590086
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- The Great Agony and Pure Laughter of the Gods by Jamala Safari
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EAN: 9781415201763
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- The Turtle Dove Told Me by Thandi Sliepen
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EAN: 9781920590482
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- Almost Sleeping My Way to Timbuktu by Sihle Khumalo
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EAN: 9781415203989
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- The Children of Soweto by Mbulelo Mzamane
EAN: 9780636113602
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- Children of Paradise by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane
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EAN: 9781869142087
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- Crossbones by Nuruddin Farah
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EAN: 9780143530350
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- From a Crooked Rib by Nuruddin Farah
EAN: 9780435900809
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- The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Njabulo S Ndebele
EAN: 9781770103085
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- Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture by Njabulo Ndebele
EAN: 9781869140793
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