Alan Paton Award

The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award.

The Alan Paton Award Nonfiction is awarded by the newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989 for non-fiction. Since 2002 there is also the Fiction Award for Fiction. The award is named after the South African writer Alan Paton. He is considered the greatest South African literary award.

The works must be of a South African or a foreigner who has lived at least three years in South Africa, written and should have been written in English. For translations into English of the price between author and translator is shared. The proposals will be submitted by the editors, the winner is determined by a jury appointed by the Sunday Times.

The first award was endowed with 15,000 margin, the winner in 2007 was 75,000 margin. In 1992, the British Thomas Pakenham for the first time a foreigner the price.

Winner

Nonfiction Award

  • Antjie Krog for Country of My Skull
  • Stephen Clingman for Bram Fischer: African Revolutionary
  • 2000: Anthony Sampson for Mandela: The Authorised Biography
  • 2001: Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass
  • 2002: Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station
  • 2003: Jonny Steinberg for Midlands
  • 2004: Pumla Gobodo - Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night
  • 2005: Jonny Steinberg for The Number
  • 2006: jointly awarded to:
  • 2007: Ivan Vladislavić for Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
  • 2008: Mark Gevisser on Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred
  • 2009: Peter Harris for In a Different Time
  • 2010: Albie Sachs on The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
  • 2011: Ronnie Kasrils for The Unlikely Secret Agent
  • 2012: Hugh Lewin for Stones Against the Mirror

Fiction Award

  • 2001: Zakes Mda for The Heart of Redness
  • 2002: Ivan Vladislavić for The Restless Supermarket
  • 2003: André Brink for The Other Side of Silence
  • 2004: Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
  • 2005: Justin Cartwright for The Promise of Happiness
  • 2006: Andrew Brown for Cold Sleep Lullaby
  • 2007: Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat
  • 2008: Ceridwen Dovey for Blood Kin
  • 2009: Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson
  • 2010: Imraan Coovadia for High Low In -between
  • 2011: Sifiso Mzobe for Youngblood
  • 2012: Michiel Heyns for Lost Ground
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