Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, formerly European Union Literary Award, is a South African literary award.[1] This award is open to South African writers resident in South Africa who have never been published before. Books must be a first, unpublished work of fiction in English,[2] or translations of other South African languages into English providing the work has not been published in other languages. The word "dinaane" means "telling our stories together" in Setswana, says Jacana.[1]
In 2015, the European Union Literary Award was renamed the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award.[1] It is supported by various European Union embassies and commissions operating in South Africa. The award has grown from a R25,000 cash prize and publication by Jacana Media to R35,000 cash prize for the first prize winner, along with publication. The runner-up also receives an R20,000 writing bursary, in honor of Gerald Krak, who helped run Jacana Media until his death in 2014.[3] The award was first given in 2004.[1]
Winners
- European Union Literary Award
- 2004 Ishtiyaq Shukri, The Silent Minaret[4]
- 2005 Fred Khumalo, Bitches Brew and Gerald Kraak, Ice in the Lungs
- 2006 [no award]
- 2007 Kopano Matlwa, Coconut [5][6]
- 2008 Megan Voysey-Braig, Till We Can Keep an Animal
- 2009 Zinaid Meeran, Saracen at the Gates [7]
- 2010 James Clelland, Deeper than Colour
- 2011/12 Ashraf Kagee, Khalil's Journey [8]
- 2013 Penny Busetto, The Story of Anna P, as Told by Herself[9]
- 2014 Andrew Miller, Dub Steps[2]
- Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
- 2015 TBA
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 "Dinaane Debut Fiction Award". Jacana Media. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- 1 2 Sekhotho, Katleho (May 7, 2015). "Debut author wins publishing deal and R35 000". Wits Vuvuzela. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Dinaane Debut Fiction Award" (PDF). Books Etc. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Written in secret". Mail & Guardian. February 4, 2005. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
- ↑ "Kopano Matlwa's first novel, Coconut, won her the European Union Literary Award for first-time authors. She is a medical student at the University of Cape Town: Unknown". The Daily News. Durban, South Africa. April 22, 2009.
- ↑ "Student wins European Union award". The Sunday Independent. South Africa. March 25, 2007. p. 18.
- ↑ "Prize-winning debut novel is quite a ride: Main Book". The Sunday Independent. Johannesburg. January 3, 2010.
- ↑ "Academic named top novelist". Cape Argus. South Africa. April 27, 2012.
- ↑ Childes, Tarah. "Interview with Penny Busetto". Aerodrome. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
External links
- Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, official site