Best of South African literature ready for showdown
Ten books have been selected as finalists for the Sunday Times Literary Awards - five for the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction and five for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize. The winners, who this year will receive R100,000 each, will be announced at Summer Place in Hyde Park on 27 June 2015.
Alan Paton Award nominees
- • Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-apartheid Struggle by Jacob Dlamini
• Lost and Found in Johannesburg by Mark Gevisser
• DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism by Lindie Koorts
• Postmortem: the Doctor Who Walked Away by Maria Phalime• A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg
Barry Ronge Award nominees
- • Tales of the Metric System by Imraan Coovadia
• The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
• Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
• The Savage Hour by Elaine Proctor• October by Zoe Wicomb
For more information, go to www.bookslive.co.za.