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{{Infobox award|name=The Olive Schreiner Prize|awarded_for=Novice drama, prose, or poetry in English|presenter=[[English Academy of Southern Africa]]|eligibility=[[Southern Africa]]|established=1961}}
The '''Olive Schreiner Prize''' is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the [[English Academy of South Africa]].<ref name="AcademyAwards">{{Cite web |title=Awards and Prizes - English Academy of Southern Africa |url=https://englishacademy.co.za/awards-and-prizes/ |access-date=2020-07-16 |language=en-ZA}}</ref> The prize rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry.


The '''Olive Schreiner Prize''' has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry.<ref name="AcademyAwards">{{Cite web|title=Awards and Prizes|url=https://englishacademy.co.za/awards-and-prizes/|url-status=live|access-date=2020-07-16|website=English Academy of Southern Africa|language=en-ZA}}</ref> It is named after [[Olive Schreiner]], the South African author and activist. It rewards promising novice work, by writers who are not yet regarded as "established" in the genre.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Mulgrew|first=Nick|date=2018-08-20|title=Enter The 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|url=http://pensouthafrica.co.za/enter-the-2018-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=PEN South Africa|language=en-US}}</ref> It rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose, and poetry. The prize for each genre is therefore triennial, and is open to work published in the three years since it was last awarded.<ref name=":0" />
The award is named after [[Olive Schreiner]], the South African author and activist.


The Prize was established in 1961 by the [[Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns]] (SAAWK), and was transferred to the [[English Academy of Southern Africa]] in 1972.<ref name="Akademie.co.za2">{{cite web|title=Akademiepryse 1909–|url=http://www.akademie.co.za/articles/13/akademiepryse-1909-|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns|publisher=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019093712/http://www.akademie.co.za/articles/13/akademiepryse-1909-|archivedate=19 October 2014|df=}}</ref> The Prize was previously sponsored by [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell South Africa]], and later by [[First National Bank (South Africa)|FNB]],<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1998-12-01|title=Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/10131759885310181|journal=English Academy Review|volume=15|issue=1|pages=349–360|doi=10.1080/10131759885310181|issn=1013-1752}}</ref> and under SAAWK was open only to works published in South Africa or [[Rhodesia]] by a writer from one of those countries.<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" /> It is now open to works published in [[Southern Africa|southern African]] countries by citizens of southern African countries generally.<ref name=":0" /> It is not highly remunerated – by 1987, it was worth only R500,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Frankel|first=Norman|url=https://books.google.co.za/books?id=XhFaCwAAQBAJ&dq=1985+olive+schreiner+prize&source=gbs_navlinks_s|title=The Grants Register 1985–1987|date=2016-01-08|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-06829-6|pages=295|language=en}}</ref> and in 2010 was worth R5 000<ref name=":1" /> – but is considered prestigious.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-10-24|title=Hugh Lewin awarded Olive Schreiner Prize|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2003-10-24-hugh-lewin-awarded-olive-schreiner-prize/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=The Mail & Guardian|language=en-ZA}}</ref>
==Award winners==
*2019 Poetry: [[Allan Kolski Horwitz]] ''The Colours of Our Flag''
*2018 Prose: [[Bronwyn Law-Viljoen]], ''The Printmaker'' and [[Elleke Boehmer]], ''The Shouting in the Dark''
*2017 Drama: [[Neil Coppen]], ''Tin Bucket Drum''
*2016 Poetry: No Award
*2015 Prose: [[Imran Garda]], ''The Thunder that Roars''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://penguin.bookslive.co.za/blog/2016/05/23/imran-gardas-novel-the-thunder-that-roars-wins-the-2015-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|title=Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|date=23 May 2016}}</ref> and [[Jill Nudelman]], ''Inheriting the Earth''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2016/05/20/jill-nudelman-and-imran-garda-win-2015-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|title=Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|date=20 May 2016}}</ref>
*2015 Drama: [[Phillip M. Dikotla]], ''Skierlik''<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
*2014 Poetry: [[Rustum Kozain]], ''Groundwork''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/04/04/rustum-kozain-wins-second-olive-schreiner-prize-for-groundwork/|title=Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize}}</ref>
*2013 Prose: [[Peter Dunseith]], ''The Bird of Heaven''<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2013/10/02/peter-dunseith-and-lauren-van-vuuren-receive-2013-english-academy-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-awards/ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards"], Books Live, 2 October 2013.</ref>
*2012 Drama: [[Nicholas Spagnoletti]], ''London Road''<ref>[http://www.englishacademy.co.za/pringle-and-schreiner-awards-announced/ "Pringle and Schreiner awards announced"], English Academy of Southern Africa, 12 June 2012.</ref>
*2011 Drama: No Award<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2012/06/12/kelwyn-sole-wins-thomas-pringle-award-for-poetry-for-cape-town%E2%84%A2/ "Kelwyn Sole Wins Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry for 'Cape Town™'"], Books Live, 12 June 2012.</ref>
*2010 Poetry: [[Finuala Dowling]], ''Notes from the Dementia Ward''<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/11/17/finuala-dowling-and-michiel-heyns-win-the-english-academys-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-prizes/ "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy’s Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes"], Books Live, 17 November 2010.</ref>
*2009 Prose: [[Michael Cawood Green]], ''For The Sake of Silence''<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/04/21/michael-cawood-green-wins-the-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose-for-for-the-sake-of-silence/ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence"], Books Live, 21 April 2010.</ref>
*2008 Drama: No Award<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/10/20/david-medalie-wins-the-2008-pringle-prize-for-short-fiction/ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction"], Books Live, 20 October 2008.</ref>
*2007 Poetry: [[Rustum Kozain]], ''This Carting Life''<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/01/23/rustum-kozain-wins-the-olive-schreiner-prize/ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize"], Books Live, 23 January 2008.</ref>
*2006 Prose: [[Jane Taylor (South Africa)|Jane Taylor]], ''Of Wild Dogs''; Russel Brownlee, ''Garden of the Plagues''<ref>[http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/01/08/brownlee-taylor-share-olive-schreiner-prize/ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize"], Books Live, 8 January 2007.</ref>
*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 (poet)|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 (poet)|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''


As of 2018, the Prize could not be awarded to the same writer more than twice.<ref name=":0" /> To date, this disqualifies only two writers: [[Rustum Kozain]], who has won the poetry prize twice, and [[Zakes Mda]], who has won for both drama and prose.
==Notes==

== Prizewinners ==
[[File:Olive Schreiner00.jpg|thumb|Olive Schreiner in 1889]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Winners of the Olive Schreiner Prize (1961–2019)
!Year
!Form
!Winner
!
!Ref.
|-
|2019
|Poetry
|[[Allan Kolski Horwitz]]
|''The Colours of Our Flag''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
| rowspan="2" |2018
| rowspan="2" |Prose
|[[Bronwyn Law-Viljoen]]
|''The Printmaker''
| rowspan="2" |<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|[[Elleke Boehmer]]
|''The Shouting in the Dark''
|-
|2017
|Drama
|[[Neil Coppen]]
|''Tin Bucket Drum''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2016
|Poetry
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
| rowspan="2" |2015
| rowspan="2" |Prose
|[[Imran Garda]]
|''The Thunder that Roars''
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-25|title=Literary awards: ’Tis the season to toast the best of local authors|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2016-05-25-tis-the-season-to-toast-the-best-of-local-letters/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=The Mail & Guardian|language=en-ZA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-05-20|title=Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2016/05/20/jill-nudelman-and-imran-garda-win-2015-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2016-05-23|title=Imran Garda’s novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|work=Sunday Times Books|url=http://penguin.bookslive.co.za/blog/2016/05/23/imran-gardas-novel-the-thunder-that-roars-wins-the-2015-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose/|access-date=2021-11-23}}</ref>
|-
|[[Jill Nudelman]]
|''Inheriting the Earth''
|-
|2014
|Drama
|[[Phillip M. Dikotla]]
|''Skierlik''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2013
|Poetry
|[[Rustum Kozain]]
|''Groundwork''
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-04|title=Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize for Groundwork|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/04/04/rustum-kozain-wins-second-olive-schreiner-prize-for-groundwork/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2012
|Prose
|[[Peter Dunseith]]
|''The Bird of Heaven''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-10-02|title=Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2013/10/02/peter-dunseith-and-lauren-van-vuuren-receive-2013-english-academy-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-awards/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |2011
| rowspan="2" |Drama
|[[Nicholas Spagnoletti]]
|''London Road''
| rowspan="2" |<ref name="AcademyAwards" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012|title=Literary awards 2011/2012 update|url=https://www.westerncape.gov.za/Text/2012/10/7_mj2012-litawards.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Western Cape Government}}</ref>
|-
|[[Mike van Graan]]
|''Iago's Last Dance''
|-
|2010
|Poetry
|[[Finuala Dowling]]
|''Notes from the Dementia Ward''
|<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2010-11-17|title=Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy's Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/11/17/finuala-dowling-and-michiel-heyns-win-the-english-academys-olive-schreiner-and-thomas-pringle-prizes/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2009
|Prose
|[[Michael Cawood Green]]
|''For The Sake of Silence''
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-04-21|title=Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2010/04/21/michael-cawood-green-wins-the-olive-schreiner-prize-for-prose-for-for-the-sake-of-silence/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2008
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-10-20|title=David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/10/20/david-medalie-wins-the-2008-pringle-prize-for-short-fiction/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2007
|Poetry
|[[Rustum Kozain]]
|''This Carting Life''
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-01-23|title=Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2008/01/23/rustum-kozain-wins-the-olive-schreiner-prize/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" |2006
| rowspan="2" |Prose
|[[Jane Taylor (South Africa)|Jane Taylor]]
|''Of Wild Dogs''
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-01-08|title=Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize|url=http://bookslive.co.za/blog/2007/01/08/brownlee-taylor-share-olive-schreiner-prize/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Sunday Times Books|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Loker|first=Byron|date=2007-01-04|title=Russel Brownlee, Jane Taylor win Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose|url=https://ibhuku.blogspot.com/2007/01/russel-brownlee-jane-taylor-win-olive.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=iBhuku}}</ref>
|-
|[[Russel Brownlee]]
|''Garden of the Plagues''
|-
|2005
|Drama
|[[John Kani]]
|''Nothing but the Truth''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2004
|Poetry
|[[Isobel Dixon]]
|''Weather Eye''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2003
|Prose
|[[Hugh Lewin]]
|''Bandiet out of Jail''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2002
|Drama
|[[Xoli Norman]]
|''Hallelujah!''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2001
|Poetry
|[[Mzi Mahola]]
|''When Rains Come''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|2000
|Prose
|[[Antjie Krog]]
|''[[Country of My Skull]]''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1999
|Drama
|[[Moira Lovell]]
|''Bedtime Stories''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1998
|Poetry
|[[Dan Wylie]]
|''The Road Out''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1997
|Prose
|[[Zakes Mda]]
|''[[Ways of Dying]]''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1996
|Drama
|[[Zakes Mda]]
|''The Nun's Romantic Story''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1995
|Poetry
|[[Allan James]]
|''Morning Near Genadendal''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1994
|Prose
|[[Deena Padayachee]]
|''What's Love Got to Do with It?''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1993
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1992
|Poetry
|[[Tatamkulu Afrika]]
|''Nine Lives''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1991
|Prose
|[[Ivan Vladislavic]]
|''Missing Persons''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1990
|Drama
|[[Norman Coombe]]
|''A Snake in the Garden''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1989
|Poetry
|[[Kelwyn Sole]]
|''Blood of Our Silence''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1988
|Prose
|[[John Conyngham]]
|''The Arrowing of the Cane''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1987
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1986
|Poetry
|[[Lionel Abrahams]]
|''Journal of a New Man''
|<ref name="AcademyAwards" />
|-
|1985
|Prose
|[[Menan du Plessis]]
|''A State of Fear''
|
|-
|1984
|Drama
|[[Junction Avenue Theatre Company]]
|''Randlords and Rotgut''
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-11-08|title=At the Junction|url=https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/at-the-junction/|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Wits University Press|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|1983
|Poetry
|[[Chris Mann (poet)|Chris Mann]]
|''New Shades''
|
|-
|1982
|Prose
|[[Rose Zwi]]
|''Another Year In Africa''
|
|-
|1981
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1980
| rowspan="2" |Poetry
|[[Patrick Cullinan]]
|''Today Is Not Different''
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-10-10|title=Obituary: The warmth and laughter of Chris van Wyk|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-10-obituary-words-of-warmth-and-laughter/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-23|website=Mail & Guardian|language=en-ZA}}</ref>
|-
|[[Christopher van Wyk|Chris van Wyk]]
|''It Is Time to Go Home''
|-
|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 (poet)|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
| colspan="2" |No award
|
|-
|1971
|Poetry
|[[Elias Pater]]
|''In Praise of Night''
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1970
|Prose
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1969
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1968
|Poetry
|[[Sydney Clouts]]
|''One Life''
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1967
|Prose
|[[M. F. C. Roebuck]]
|''Nyitso''
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1966
|Drama
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1965
|Poetry
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1964
|Prose
|[[Anna M. Louw]]
|''20 Days That Autumn''
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1963
|Drama
|[[H. W. D. Manson]]
|''The Noose-Knot Ballad''
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1962
|Prose
| colspan="2" |No award
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|-
|1961
|Poetry
|[[F. D. Sinclair]]
|His work
|<ref name="Akademie.co.za2" />
|}

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Revision as of 11:54, 23 November 2021

The Olive Schreiner Prize
Awarded forNovice drama, prose, or poetry in English
Presented byEnglish Academy of Southern Africa
EligibilitySouthern Africa
Established1961

The Olive Schreiner Prize has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry.[1] It is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. It rewards promising novice work, by writers who are not yet regarded as "established" in the genre.[2] It rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose, and poetry. The prize for each genre is therefore triennial, and is open to work published in the three years since it was last awarded.[2]

The Prize was established in 1961 by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK), and was transferred to the English Academy of Southern Africa in 1972.[3] The Prize was previously sponsored by Shell South Africa, and later by FNB,[4] and under SAAWK was open only to works published in South Africa or Rhodesia by a writer from one of those countries.[3] It is now open to works published in southern African countries by citizens of southern African countries generally.[2] It is not highly remunerated – by 1987, it was worth only R500,[5] and in 2010 was worth R5 000[6] – but is considered prestigious.[7]

As of 2018, the Prize could not be awarded to the same writer more than twice.[2] To date, this disqualifies only two writers: Rustum Kozain, who has won the poetry prize twice, and Zakes Mda, who has won for both drama and prose.

Prizewinners

Olive Schreiner in 1889
Winners of the Olive Schreiner Prize (1961–2019)
Year Form Winner Ref.
2019 Poetry Allan Kolski Horwitz The Colours of Our Flag [1]
2018 Prose Bronwyn Law-Viljoen The Printmaker [1]
Elleke Boehmer The Shouting in the Dark
2017 Drama Neil Coppen Tin Bucket Drum [1]
2016 Poetry No award [1]
2015 Prose Imran Garda The Thunder that Roars [8][9][10]
Jill Nudelman Inheriting the Earth
2014 Drama Phillip M. Dikotla Skierlik [1]
2013 Poetry Rustum Kozain Groundwork [11]
2012 Prose Peter Dunseith The Bird of Heaven [1][12]
2011 Drama Nicholas Spagnoletti London Road [1][13]
Mike van Graan Iago's Last Dance
2010 Poetry Finuala Dowling Notes from the Dementia Ward [6]
2009 Prose Michael Cawood Green For The Sake of Silence [14]
2008 Drama No award [15]
2007 Poetry Rustum Kozain This Carting Life [16]
2006 Prose Jane Taylor Of Wild Dogs [17][18]
Russel Brownlee Garden of the Plagues
2005 Drama John Kani Nothing but the Truth [1]
2004 Poetry Isobel Dixon Weather Eye [1]
2003 Prose Hugh Lewin Bandiet out of Jail [1]
2002 Drama Xoli Norman Hallelujah! [1]
2001 Poetry Mzi Mahola When Rains Come [1]
2000 Prose Antjie Krog Country of My Skull [1]
1999 Drama Moira Lovell Bedtime Stories [1]
1998 Poetry Dan Wylie The Road Out [1]
1997 Prose Zakes Mda Ways of Dying [1]
1996 Drama Zakes Mda The Nun's Romantic Story [1]
1995 Poetry Allan James Morning Near Genadendal [1]
1994 Prose Deena Padayachee What's Love Got to Do with It? [1]
1993 Drama No award [1]
1992 Poetry Tatamkulu Afrika Nine Lives [1]
1991 Prose Ivan Vladislavic Missing Persons [1]
1990 Drama Norman Coombe A Snake in the Garden [1]
1989 Poetry Kelwyn Sole Blood of Our Silence [1]
1988 Prose John Conyngham The Arrowing of the Cane [1]
1987 Drama No award [1]
1986 Poetry Lionel Abrahams Journal of a New Man [1]
1985 Prose Menan du Plessis A State of Fear
1984 Drama Junction Avenue Theatre Company Randlords and Rotgut [19]
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 [20]
Chris van Wyk It Is Time to Go Home
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 [3]
1970 Prose No award [3]
1969 Drama No award [3]
1968 Poetry Sydney Clouts One Life [3]
1967 Prose M. F. C. Roebuck Nyitso [3]
1966 Drama No award [3]
1965 Poetry No award [3]
1964 Prose Anna M. Louw 20 Days That Autumn [3]
1963 Drama H. W. D. Manson The Noose-Knot Ballad [3]
1962 Prose No award [3]
1961 Poetry F. D. Sinclair His work [3]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Mulgrew, Nick (2018-08-20). "Enter The 2018 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". PEN South Africa. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Akademiepryse 1909–". Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  4. ^ "Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa". English Academy Review. 15 (1): 349–360. 1998-12-01. doi:10.1080/10131759885310181. ISSN 1013-1752.
  5. ^ Frankel, Norman (2016-01-08). The Grants Register 1985–1987. Springer. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-349-06829-6.
  6. ^ a b "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy's Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes". Sunday Times Books. 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Hugh Lewin awarded Olive Schreiner Prize". The Mail & Guardian. 2003-10-24. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  8. ^ "Literary awards: 'Tis the season to toast the best of local authors". The Mail & Guardian. 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  9. ^ "Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". Sunday Times Books. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  11. ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize for Groundwork". Sunday Times Books. 2014-04-04. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards". Sunday Times Books. 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Literary awards 2011/2012 update" (PDF). Western Cape Government. 2012. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence". Sunday Times Books. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction". Sunday Times Books. 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize". Sunday Times Books. 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ Loker, Byron (2007-01-04). "Russel Brownlee, Jane Taylor win Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". iBhuku. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "At the Junction". Wits University Press. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  20. ^ "Obituary: The warmth and laughter of Chris van Wyk". Mail & Guardian. 2014-10-10. Retrieved 2021-11-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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