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] The prize rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry.

The award is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist.

Award winners
  • 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[2] and Jill Nudelman, Inheriting the Earth[3]
  • 2015 Drama: Phillip M. Dikotla, Skierlik[1]
  • 2014 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, Groundwork[4]
  • 2013 Prose: Peter Dunseith, The Bird of Heaven[5]
  • 2012 Drama: Nicholas Spagnoletti, London Road[6]
  • 2011 Drama: No Award[7]
  • 2010 Poetry: Finuala Dowling, Notes from the Dementia Ward[8]
  • 2009 Prose: Michael Cawood Green, For The Sake of Silence[9]
  • 2008 Drama: No Award[10]
  • 2007 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, This Carting Life[11]
  • 2006 Prose: Jane Taylor, Of Wild Dogs; Russel Brownlee, Garden of the Plagues[12]
  • 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. "Awards and Prizes - English Academy of Southern Africa". Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  2. "Imran Garda's novel The Thunder That Roars wins the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". 23 May 2016.
  3. "Jill Nudelman and Imran Garda win 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose". 20 May 2016.
  4. "Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize".
  5. "Peter Dunseith and Lauren van Vuuren Receive 2013 English Academy Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Awards", Books Live, 2 October 2013.
  6. "Pringle and Schreiner awards announced", English Academy of Southern Africa, 12 June 2012.
  7. "Kelwyn Sole Wins Thomas Pringle Award for Poetry for 'Cape Town™'", Books Live, 12 June 2012.
  8. "Finuala Dowling and Michiel Heyns Win the English Academy’s Olive Schreiner and Thomas Pringle Prizes", Books Live, 17 November 2010.
  9. "Michael Cawood Green Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose, for For the Sake of Silence", Books Live, 21 April 2010.
  10. "David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction", Books Live, 20 October 2008.
  11. "Rustum Kozain Wins the Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 23 January 2008.
  12. "Brownlee, Taylor Share Olive Schreiner Prize", Books Live, 8 January 2007.
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