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]

Award winners

• 2013 Prose Peter Dunseith The Bird of Heaven ^[2]
• 2012 Drama Nicholas Spagnoletti London Road
• 2011 Drama No Award^[3]
• 2010 Poetry Finuala Dowling Notes from the Dementia Ward^[4]
• 2009 Prose Michael Cawood Green For The Sake of Silence^[5]
• 2008 Drama No Award^[6]
• 2007 Poetry Rustum Kozain This Carting Life^[7]
• 2006 Prose Jane Taylor Of Wild Dogs, Russel Brownlee - Garden of the Plagues^[8]
• 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. ↑ http://www.englishacademy.co.za/awards.html
2. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2013/10/02/peter-dunseith-and-lauren-van-vuuren-receive-2013-english-academy-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-awards/
3. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2012/06/12/kelwyn-sole-wins-thomas-pringle-award-for-poetry-for-cape-town%E2%84%A2/
4. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/11/17/finuala-dowling-and-michiel-heyns-win-the-english-academys-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-prizes/
5. ↑ BOOKS Live "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence"
6. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/10/20/david-medalie-wins-the-2008-pringle-prize-for-short-fiction/
7. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/01/23/rustum-kozain-wins-the-olive-schreiner-prize/
8. ↑ http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/01/08/brownlee-taylor-share-olive-schreiner-prize/