Press Release: SALA

SALA honoured fourteen South Africa’s authors at the 10th South African Literary Awards on the 7th November 2015, Tshwane Events centre, Pretoria.
Receiving the awards were:

CATEGORY	LANGUAGE	NAME & SURNAME	BOOK TITLE/ OEUVRE
1. First-time Published Author Award	English	Carol Campbell	My Children Have Faces
2. k Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award	English	Zukiswa Wanner	London, Cape Town, Joburg
3.  Creative Non-Fiction Award	English	Edwin Cameron	Justice: A Personal Account
4.Lifetime Achievement Literary Award	English	Achmat Dangor	His oeuvre
	Afrikaans	Antjie Krog	Her oeuvre
5. Poetry Award	Afrikaans	Charl-Pierre Naude	Al die lifelike dade
	isiXhosa	Mangaliso Buzani	Ndisabhala Imibongo
	Sepedi	Bishop M.T Makobe	Tsa Ngweding wa Letopanta
6. Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award	Afrikaans	Abraham H de Vries	Maar wie snoei die rose in die nag?
7. Literary Journalism Award	English	Michelle Magwood	Her oeuvre
8. Posthumous Literary Award		R.R.R and H.I.E Dhlomo
9. Literary Translators Award	Afrikaans to English	Karen Press	Mede-wete & Synapse
10. Chairperson’s Award		Peter Mtuze	His oeuvre

This year’s instalment was outstanding as SALA presented at the awards ceremony, the 4^th International African Writers Day Lecture delivered by Prof Micere Mugo, Kenyan-born poet, playwright, literary critic and Emeritus Full Professor (retired) from the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse. The SALA programme was also preceded by the SALA Legacy programmes comprising a two-day AfreeWritePlayArts Expo comprising books exhibitions and discussions, storytelling, book reading by Nali’libali, National Library of South Africa and Lisahluma Skills Development Services. The expo also included arts and crafts and African games presented by Kara Heritage Institute. Creative Writing Skills Development programme in poetry and short stories facilitated by the National Poet Laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile and author, translator, film maker and publisher Victor Molele.

The prestigious South African Literary Awards were founded in 2005 by the wRite associates, in partnership with the national Department of Arts and Culture, as a platform to honour authors, writers, poets and literary practitioners who made and continue to make a contribution in the literary landscape in South Africa.

To date, SALA has honoured 161 authors, amongst them Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer, National Poet Laureates Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mazisi Kunene, multi-award winning novelist, poet, painter and academic, Zakes Mda, novelist Kgebetli Moele, literary journalists Bongani Madondo and Sabata-Mpho Mokae, translator, poet, novelist and children’s writer Chris van Wyk, poet Kobus Moolman, book critics Karabo Kgoleng and Jenny Crwys-Williams, short story writers Makhosazana Xaba and Reneilwe Malatji, scholars and prolific writers Mbulelo Mzamane, Ashraaf Kagee, Nhlanhla Maake, Imraan Coovadia, and many others.

SALA has grown in leaps and bounds from when it started with only one category: the National Poet Laureate Prize and later followed by the Lifetime Achievement Literary Award, bestowed on luminaries across the land.

SALA honours writing and writers in all official languages across ten categories.

They are: 

1. k. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award
2. First- Time published
3. Nadine Gordimer Short Story Literary Award
4. Poetry Award,
5. Literary Translators Award,
6. Lifetime Achievement Literary Award,
7. Posthumous Literary Award,
8. Literary Journalism Award,
9. Creative Non-Fiction Award and,
10. Chairperson’s Award.

For enquiries and more information: 

call: 011-791 3585

Issued by the South African Literary Awards © 2015