The Exclusive Books Boeke Prize is a book prize which was awarded in South Africa from 1995 to 2012.
Award The award was loosely modelled on the United Kingdom's Booker Prize, and sponsored by Exclusive Books. Although boeke is an Afrikaans word, the plural form of the word for "book", the Boeke Prize has only been awarded to novels written in English.
Launched in 1995, the award was made mostly to first novels or works: 12 of the first 19 winners were debut works. The books were judged by a panel of book critics (40 in 2008).http://www.women24.com/Women24/BooksAstrology/News/Article/0,,1-12-68_20471,00.html
Ten of the books to receive the award have had a film adaptation released.
Winners Judges' Award
Year Title Author1995 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt1996 Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson1997 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt1998 Cold Mountain Charles Frazier1999 The Reader Bernhard Schlink2000 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver2001 Eddie's Bastard William Kowalski2002 Atonement Ian McEwan2003 Life of Pi Yann Martel2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark HaddonThe Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini2005 The Time-Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger2006 Q & A Vikas Swarup2007 The Book Thief Markus Zusak2008 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson2009 The Help Kathryn Stockett2010 One Day David Nicholls2011 When God Was a Rabbit Sarah Winman2012 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Exclusive Books Fanatics choice Year Title 2010 The Postmistress Sarah Blake 2011 Thirteen Hours Deon Meyer 2012 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
See also Amstel Playwright of the Year Award M-Net Literary Awards Exclusive Books
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