The JRB presents an excerpt from Morafe: Person, Family and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s–1950s by Khumisho Moguerane, winner of…
Gabrielle Mudiwa has won the first ever Achmat Dangor Literary Prize, an award dedicated to nurturing young, previously disadvantaged writers…
Header image: Courtesy of the Booker Prize British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital….
The winners of the 2024 South African Literary Awards (the SALAs) have been announced. The SALAs are awarded annually by…
The winners of the 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced. Jonny Steinberg won the Sunday Times Non-fiction Award…
The shortlists for the 2024 South African Literary Awards have been announced. The SALAs are awarded annually by the wRite…
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to fifty-three-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang. Han, whose works include The Vegetarian,…
Morabo Morojele and Jarred Thompson have been announced as the winners of the 2024 University of Johannesburg Prizes for South…
The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, offering ‘a diversity of perspective, style and subject matter’. First awarded in…
South African writer Nadia Davids has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing! The…
The shortlists for the 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been revealed. The two awards—the Non-fiction Award and the Fiction…
Header image: Wisani Mushwana, Siphokazi Magadla, Jarred Thompson, Nthikeng Mohlele, Buntu Siwisa, Morabo Morojele The shortlists for the annual University…
Applications for the 2024 Achmat Dangor Literary Prize, an award dedicated to nurturing young, previously disadvantaged writers working in all…
The shortlist for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing, awarded annually for a short story by an African writer…
The 2024 Booker Prize longlist has been announced, featuring ‘blackly comic page-turners, multigenerational epics, meditations on the pain of exile—plus…
Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, for her novel manuscript ‘Buried…
Header image: Reena Usha Rungoo, Sanjana Thakur, Julie Bouchard, Portia Subran, Pip Robertson The regional winners of the 2024 Commonwealth…
Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann, has been announced as the winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize….
The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) has announced the winners of the ninth annual HSS Awards,…
Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song. He receives £50,000 and was presented with…
The winners of the 2023 South African Literary Awards (the SALAs) have been announced. The SALAs are awarded annually by…
The winners of the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been announced. Bulelwa Mabasa has won the Non-fiction Award for…
Henrietta Rose-Innes has been awarded the prestigious UJ Prize for Literary Translation, for her translation of Etienne van Heerden’s novel…
The shortlists for the 2023 South African Literary Awards have been announced. The SALAs are awarded annually by the wRite…
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Norwegian playwright, novelist and poet Jon Fosse. The Swedish Academy said the…
Senegalese writers Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo have been awarded the 2023 Caine Prize for African Writing for their…
The shortlists for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards have been revealed. The two awards—the Non-fiction Award and the Fiction…
The 2023 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, offering ‘a sense of timelessness even while saying something about how we…
Header image: CA Davids and Pulane Mlilo Mpondo The winners of the University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in…
The shortlists for the annual University of Johannesburg Prizes for South African Writing in English have been announced. The UJ…
The 2023 Booker Prize longlist has been announced, offering ‘startling portraits of the current’. The thirteen longlisted books explore ‘universal…
The shortlist for the 2023 Caine Prize for African Writing, awarded annually for a short story by an African writer…
Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead. With the win, Kingsolver becomes…
‘A Mouth Full of Salt’ by Sudanese writer Reem Gaafar has won the 2023 Island Prize for a Debut Novel…
Author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel have been announced as the winners of the 2023 International Booker Prize for…
Header image (l to r, top to bottom): Hana Gammon, Agnes Chew, Rue Baldry, Kwame McPherson, Himali McInnes The regional…
Image: Aganaba, Jesudubami Jemima; Reem Gaafar; Andile MaShandu Cele The shortlist for the 2023 Island Prize for a Debut Novel from…
Zambian writer Jacob M’hango and Nigerian writers ’Pemi Aguda and Arinze Ifeakandu are among the winners of the prestigious O…
The shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Half of this year’s list is made up…
The six novels shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize have been revealed, including Guadeloupian author Maryse Condé, described by…
