Olive Schreiner Prize

The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa.[1] The prize rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry.

The award is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist.

Award winners

  • 2016 Prose: Imran Garda, , The Thunder that Roars[2] and Jill Nudelman, Inheriting the Earth[3]
  • 2015 Drama: Phillip M. Dikotla, Skierlik[1]
  • 2014 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, Groundwork[4]
  • 2013 Prose: Peter Dunseith, The Bird of Heaven[5]
  • 2012 Drama: Nicholas Spagnoletti, London Road[6]
  • 2011 Drama: No Award[7]
  • 2010 Poetry: Finuala Dowling, Notes from the Dementia Ward[8]
  • 2009 Prose: Michael Cawood Green, For The Sake of Silence[9]
  • 2008 Drama: No Award[10]
  • 2007 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, This Carting Life[11]
  • 2006 Prose: Jane Taylor, Of Wild Dogs; Russel Brownlee, Garden of the Plagues[12]
  • 2005 Drama: John Kani, Nothing but the Truth
  • 2004 Poetry: Isobel Dixon, Weather Eye
  • 2003 Prose: Hugh Lewin, Bandiet out of Jail
  • 2002 Drama: Xoli Norman, Halleluja
  • 2001 Poetry: Mzi Mahola, When Rains Come
  • 2000 Prose: Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull
  • 1999 Drama: Moira Lovell, Bedtime Stories
  • 1998 Poetry: Dan Wylie, The Road Out
  • 1997 Prose: Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying
  • 1996 Drama: Zakes Mda, The Nun's Romantic Story
  • 1995 Poetry: Allan James, Morning near Genadendal
  • 1994 Prose: Deena Padayachee, What's Love Got to Do with It?
  • 1993 Drama: No Award
  • 1992 Poetry: Tatamkulu Afrika, Nine Lives
  • 1991 Prose: Ivan Vladislavic, Missing Persons
  • 1990 Drama: Norman Coombe, A Snake in the Garden
  • 1989 Poetry: Kelwyn Sole, Blood of Our Silence
  • 1988 Prose:John Conyngham, The Arrowing of the Cane
  • 1987 Drama: No Award
  • 1986 Poetry: Lionel Abrahams, Journal of a New Man
  • 1985 Prose: Menan du Plessis, A State of Fear
  • 1985 Drama: Junction Avenue Theatre Company, Randlords and Rotgut
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970 Prose: No Award
  • 1969 Drama: No Award
  • 1968 Poetry: Sydney Clouts, One Life
  • 1967 Prose: M. F. C. Roebuck, Nyitso: a novel of West Africa
  • 1966 Drama: No Award
  • 1965 Poetry: No Award
  • 1964 Prose: Anna M. Louw, 20 Days That Autumn

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Academy Awards", English Academy of South Africa.
  2. ↑ "Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". 23 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". 20 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize".
  5. ↑ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards", Books Live, 2 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Pringle and Schreiner awards announced", English Academy of Southern Africa, 12 June 2012.
  7. ↑ "Kelwyn Sole Wins Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry for 'Cape Town™'", Books Live, 12 June 2012.
  8. ↑ "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy’s Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes", Books Live, 17 November 2010.
  9. ↑ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence", Books Live, 21 April 2010.
  10. ↑ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction", Books Live, 20 October 2008.
  11. ↑ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 23 January 2008.
  12. ↑ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 8 January 2007.
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