Sunday Times newspaper has announced the longlists for the Alan Paton Award and the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.
Founded in 1989, “as Apartheid began to crumble,” the Alan Paton Award is in its 30th year. It recognizes a book that offers “the illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it that are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power,” and that shows “compassion, elegance of writing, and intellectual and moral integrity.” The prize was created to suggest “both a tribute and a hope. The tribute is to Alan Paton, one of SA’s great sons, while the hope is that the prize will encourage writers in SA to pursue the same standards of excellence and commitment which Paton set for himself.”
On the longlist is Panashe Chigumadzi, winner of the 2018 Brittle Paper Award for Essays, selected for These Bones Will Rise Again, her account of the fall of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
THE LONGLIST
Brittle Paper congratulates the 25 longlisted authors.
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