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Past Winners

RECIPIENTS OF THE ENGLISH ACADEMY GOLD MEDAL

Year Recipient
2008 Professor Rosemary Gray 
2007  Professor Elwyn Jenkins 
2006 Professor Colin Gardner 
2005  Professor Njabulo Ndebele 
2004  Professor Stanley Ridge 
2003 Professor Bernth Lindfors
Mr Mongane Wally Serote
Professor Peter Titlestad 
2001 Mr John Orr
2000  Dr Malcolm Venter 
1999 Mr Ronnie Govender 
1998 Mr Jonathan Paton 

1997
Professor Michael Chapman
Mr Michael O’Dowd
The editorial team of the Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles
1996 Professor Ernest Pereira
Mr Jim Bailey
1995 Mr David Philip
1994 Professor Ridley Beeton
Professor Es’kia Mphahlele
1993 Mrs Juliet Marais Louw
Professor Stephen Gray
1992 Mr Lionel Abrahams
1991 Miss Norah Taylor
Mr Pieter de W Williams
1990 Dr Eric Halliday
Professor Len Lanham
1989 Professor Guy Butler

OLIVE SCHREINER PRIZE WINNERS

Date Category Name Work
2007 Poetry Rustum Kozain This Carting Life
2006 Prose Jane Taylor
Russel Brownlee
Of Wild Dogs
Garden of the Plagues
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


THOMAS PRINGLE AWARD WINNERS

Year
Name
Category
2008

Mary Corrigall
David Medalie

Reviews
Short story
2007 Chris Thurman
Ambrose Chimbganda
Chris Mann
Reviews
Educational article
Poetry
2006 Michiel Heyns
David Schalkwyk
Ken Barris
Reviews
Literary article
Short story
2005 Barry Ronge
Bernat Kruger
Carolyn McKinney
Reviews
Poetry
Educational Article
2004 Khadija Magardie
Ananda Cersh
Isabel Hofmeyr
Reviews
Short Story
Literary Article
2003 Keith Clark &
Sandra McKay
Jane Rosenthal
Rustum Kozain

Literary Article
Short Story
Poetry
2002 Robert Kirby
Felicity Wood
Amanda Gersh
Dan Wylie
Educational Article
 
Review
Short Story
2001 Shaun de Waal
Nicole Geslin & Roderick Wade
Shabbir Banoobhai
Reviews
Educational Article

Poetry
2000 Eve Bertelsen
Peter Merrington
Evan Kaplan
Reviews
Literary Article
Short Story
1999 Alexander Sudheim
Christine Mary Boughey
Brian Walter
Reviews
Educational article
Poetry
1998 Zakes Mda
Kelwyn Sole
Lerothodi La Pula
Reviews
Literary Article
Short Story
1997 Shaun de Waal
Kathy Luckett
Don Maclennan
Reviews
Educational articles
Poetry
1996 Robert Kirby
Isabel Hofmeyr
Peter Merrington
Reviews
Literary articles
Short Story
1995 Bafana Khumalo
Christa van der Walt
Leon de Kock
Reviews
Educational article
Poetry
1994 Stephen Gray
Michiel Heyns
Ivan Vladislavic
Reviews
Literary articles
Short Stories and one-act plays
1993 Janice Farquharson
Brenda Leibowitz
Tatumkulu Afrika
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1992 Alexander Johnston
David Schalkwyk
Andries Walter Oliphant
Reviews
Literary articles
Short Story
1991 Charlotte Bauer
Gregory Cunningham
Tatumkulu Afrika
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1990 No award
Dorothy Driver
Patrick Cullinan
Reviews
Literary articles
Short stories
1989 Stephen Gray
Binkie Marwick
Douglas Livingstone
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1988 No award
John M Coetzee
Rose Zwi
Reviews
Literary articles
Short stories
1987 David Williams
No award
Lionel Abrahams
Mark Swift
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1986 Gus Silber
Jan Gorek &
Njabulo Ndebele
Reviews
Literary articles
1985 Robert Greig
Karen Learmont-Batley
Patrick Cullinan
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1984 John van Zyl
Graham Pechey
Sheila Roberts
Reviews
Literary articles
Short stories
1983 Cherry Clayton
Elwyn Jenkins
Patrick Cullinan
Reviews
English in education
Poetry
1982 Peter Wilhem
John Coetzee
Greg Latter
Reviews
Literary articles
Short Stories
1981 Andre Lemmer
Mtutuzeli Matshoba
Peter Strauss
Short stories, one act plays, general essays
English in education
Poetry
1980 W H Bizley
Peter Michael
Creative writing
Literary articles
Film review
No award
1979 Brian Cheadle
J A Maimane
No award
Literary articles
Creative writing (short story)
short stories
1978 Colin Gardner
Lynne Bryer
Bruce Hewitt
Literary articles
Book reviews
Creative writing (Poetry)
1977 Brian Cheadle
Peter Reynolds
Lionel Abrahams &
Sipho Sepamla
Literary articles
Play review
Creative writing (Poems)
1976 Robert Greig
Anthony Delius
No award
Play review
Creative writing (Essay)
Literary articles
1975 Pauline Fletcher
Phyllis Lewsen
Tess Koller
Literary article
Book review
Creative writing (Poetry)
1974 Peter Horn
Percy Baneshik
No award
Literary articles
Play review
Creative writing
1973 Peter Strauss
Alan Paton
Christopher Hope
Literary article
Book review
Creative Writing (Poetry)
1972 J Opland
Peter Hawthorne
Robert Dederick
Literary article
Book review
Creative writing (Poetry)
1971 Peter Strauss
Fleur de Villiers
Literary article
Play review
1970 Owen Williams Play review
1969 Nadine Gordimer Creative writing (short story)
1968 J A Berthoud Literary article
1965 Allister Sparks Newspaper article
1964 Mary Morison Webster Book Review
1962 Ramsay Milne Editorial or newspaper article

PERCY FITZPATRICK PRIZE FOR YOUTH LITERATURE

Date
Name
Work
2006 Jenny Robson Savannah 2116 AD
2004 Michael Williams The Eighth Man
2002 Patricia Schonstein Pinnock Skyline
2000 Elana Bregin Slayer of Shadows
Award taken over by the English Academy in 2000
1996 Lawrence Bransby The Boy who Counted to a Million
1994 Christel and Hans Bodenstein and Linda Rode, comps. Stories South of the Sun
1992 Dianne Case 92 Queen’s Road
1989 Lesley Beake A Cageful of Butterflies
1987 Lesley Beake The Strollers
1985 No Award  
1983 Marguerite Poland The Wood-ash Stars
1981 No Award  
1979 Marguerite Poland The Mantis and the Moon
1970 - 1977 No Awards  
1970 Award instituted by the South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science

Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation

2007 Michiel Heyns Agaat (by Marlene van Niekerk)

 

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