While the Creative Non-fiction Award has The Keeper Of The Kumm: Ancestral Longing and Belonging of a Boesmankind, by Sylvia Vollenhoven, My Own Liberator by Judge Dikgang Moseneke and Emily Hobhouse: Geliefde Verraaier by Elsabé Brits. The materials deal with the land, the rain, the history of the first people, the origin of the moon and stars, animals, cosmology, beliefs, ceremonies, art and information of the individual lives of the informants who had come to Cape Town as prisoners of the British Crown and were released into Bleek’s custody at his residence in Mowbray for linguistic and cultural research.Īlso interesting is the shortlist list under the Translators Literary award consisting of William Wellington Gqoba: Isizwe Esinembali, Xhosa Histories And Poetry (1873-1888), DLP Yali-Manisi: Iimbali Zamanyange, Historical Poems and The Thirstland Trek: 1874-1881. Listed under the Posthumous Literary Awards, five legendary contributors are drawn from Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd collection of !Xam and !Kun narratives, verses, songs, chants, drawings and other materials consisting of over 150 notebooks running in some 13 000 pages which is considered a unique cultural and literary collection which has been recognised by United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Council (UNESCO) and entered into the memory of the World Register. Twenty-eight South African authors are shortlisted for 2017 South African Literary Awards (SALA).Ģ017 marks the highest milestone of South African Literary Awards (SALA), as the shortlist includes, for the first time, the !Xam and !Kun languages. The recipient will be announced at the award ceremony William Wellington Gqoba: Isizwe Esinembali: Xhosa Histories and Poetry (1873-1888)ĭLP Yali-Manisi: Iimbali Zamanyange: Historical PoemsĬategory: Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award AuthorĬategory: Posthumous Literary Award AuthorĬategory: Lifetime Achievement Literary Award Author Jeff Opland, Wandile Kuse and Pamela Maseko The Keeper of the Kumm: Ancestral Longing and Belonging of a BoesmankindĬategory: Literary Journalism Award AuthorĬategory: Literary Translators Award Author Full South African Literary Awards shortlistsĬategory: First-time Published Author Award AuthorĬategory: K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award AuthorĬategory: Creative Non-fiction Award Author

The winners will be announced at an award ceremony on 7 November at the Kgorong Building at Unisa. Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Aletta Matshedisð Motimele and Etienne van Heerden have been shortlisted for Lifetime Achievement Literary Awards. Nick Mulgrew, for Stations, and Roela Hattingh, for Kamee, have been shortlisted for the Nadine Gordimer Short story Award.

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