Olive Schreiner Prize

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The Olive Schreiner Prize
Awarded forNovice drama, prose, or poetry in English
Presented byEnglish Academy of Southern Africa
EligibilitySouthern Africa
Established1961

The Olive Schreiner Prize has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry.[1] It is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. It rewards promising novice work, by writers who are not yet regarded as "established" in the genre.[2] It rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose, and poetry. The prize for each genre is therefore triennial, and is open to work published in the three years since it was last awarded.[2]

The Prize was established in 1961 by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), and was transferred to the English Academy of Southern Africa in 1972.[3] The Prize was previously sponsored by Shell South Africa, and later by FNB,[4] and under SAAWK was open only to works published in South Africa or Rhodesia by a writer from one of those countries.[3] It is now open to works published in southern African countries by citizens of southern African countries generally.[2] It is not highly remunerated – by 1987, it was worth only R500,[5] and in 2010 was worth R5 000[6] – but is considered prestigious.[7]

As of 2018, the Prize could not be awarded to the same writer more than twice.[2] To date, this disqualifies only two writers: Rustum Kozain, who has won the poetry prize twice, and Zakes Mda, who has won for both drama and prose.

Prizewinners[edit]

Olive Schreiner in 1889
Winners of the Olive Schreiner Prize (1961–2019)
Year Form Winner Ref.
2020 Drama Nadia Davids What Remains: A Play in One Act [1]
2019 Poetry Allan Kolski Horwitz The Colours of Our Flag [1]
2018 Prose Bronwyn Law-Viljoen The Printmaker [1]
Elleke Boehmer The Shouting in the Dark
2017 Drama Neil Coppen Tin Bucket Drum [1]
2016 Poetry No award [1]
2015 Prose Imran Garda The Thunder that Roars [8][9][10]
Jill Nudelman Inheriting the Earth
2014 Drama Phillip M. Dikotla Skierlik [1]
2013 Poetry Rustum Kozain Groundwork [11]
2012 Prose Peter Dunseith The Bird of Heaven [1][12]
2011 Drama Nicholas Spagnoletti London Road [1][13]
Mike van Graan Iago's Last Dance
2010 Poetry Finuala Dowling Notes from the Dementia Ward [6]
2009 Prose Michael Cawood Green For The Sake of Silence [14]
2008 Drama No award [15]
2007 Poetry Rustum Kozain This Carting Life [16]
2006 Prose Jane Taylor Of Wild Dogs [17][18]
Russel Brownlee Garden of the Plagues
2005 Drama John Kani Nothing but the Truth [1]
2004 Poetry Isobel Dixon Weather Eye [1]
2003 Prose Hugh Lewin Bandiet out of Jail [1]
2002 Drama Xoli Norman Hallelujah! [1]
2001 Poetry Mzi Mahola When Rains Come [1]
2000 Prose Antjie Krog Country of My Skull [1]
1999 Drama Moira Lovell Bedtime Stories [1]
1998 Poetry Dan Wylie The Road Out [1]
1997 Prose Zakes Mda Ways of Dying [1]
1996 Drama Zakes Mda The Nun's Romantic Story [1]
1995 Poetry Allan James Morning Near Genadendal [1]
1994 Prose Deena Padayachee What's Love Got to Do with It? [1]
1993 Drama No award [1]
1992 Poetry Tatamkulu Afrika Nine Lives [1]
1991 Prose Ivan Vladislavic Missing Persons [1]
1990 Drama Norman Coombe A Snake in the Garden [1]
1989 Poetry Kelwyn Sole Blood of Our Silence [1]
1988 Prose John Conyngham The Arrowing of the Cane [1]
1987 Drama No award [1]
1986 Poetry Lionel Abrahams Journal of a New Man [1]
1985 Prose Menan du Plessis A State of Fear
1984 Drama Junction Avenue Theatre Company Randlords and Rotgut [19]
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 [20]
Chris van Wyk It Is Time to Go Home
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 [3]
1970 Prose No award [3]
1969 Drama No award [3]
1968 Poetry Sydney Clouts One Life [3]
1967 Prose M. F. C. Roebuck Nyitso [3]
1966 Drama No award [3]
1965 Poetry No award [3]
1964 Prose Anna M. Louw 20 Days That Autumn [3]
1963 Drama H. W. D. Manson The Noose-Knot Ballad [3]
1962 Prose No award [3]
1961 Poetry F. D. Sinclair His work [3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "Awards and Prizes". English Academy of Southern Africa. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  2. ^ a b c d Mulgrew, Nick (2018-08-20). "Enter The 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". PEN South Africa. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Akademiepryse 1909–". Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  4. ^ "Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa". English Academy Review. 15 (1): 349–360. 1998-12-01. doi:10.1080/10131759885310181. ISSN 1013-1752.
  5. ^ Frankel, Norman (2016-01-08). The Grants Register 1985–1987. Springer. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-349-06829-6.
  6. ^ a b "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy's Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes". Sunday Times Books. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  7. ^ "Hugh Lewin awarded Olive Schreiner Prize". The Mail & Guardian. 2003-10-24. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  8. ^ "Literary awards: 'Tis the season to toast the best of local authors". The Mail & Guardian. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  9. ^ "Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  10. ^ "Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  11. ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize for Groundwork". Sunday Times Books. 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  12. ^ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards". Sunday Times Books. 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  13. ^ "Literary awards 2011/2012 update" (PDF). Western Cape Government. 2012. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  14. ^ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence". Sunday Times Books. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  15. ^ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction". Sunday Times Books. 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  16. ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  17. ^ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  18. ^ Loker, Byron (2007-01-04). "Russel Brownlee, Jane Taylor win Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". iBhuku. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  19. ^ "At the Junction". Wits University Press. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  20. ^ "Obituary: The warmth and laughter of Chris van Wyk". Mail & Guardian. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
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