List of South African literary awards

A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. This is a list of notable literary awards awarded in South Africa.

Alphabetically

A

Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts Alba Bouwer Prize Amstel Playwright of the Year Award ATKV Prose Prize

C

C.P. Hoogenhout Award Central News Agency Literary Award

D

David Higham Prize for Fiction Dinaane Debut Fiction Award

E

Eugène Marais Prize Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

F

Percy FitzPatrick Award

G

Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize

H

Hertzog Prize

I

Ingrid Jonker Prize

M

M-Net Literary Awards Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards Mbokodo Award Media24 Books Literary Awards

O

Olive Schreiner Prize

S

Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award South African Literary Awards Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards – a suite of prizes given annually by wRite associates and the South African Dept of Arts and Culture

T

The Cape Tercentenary Foundation Thomas Pringle Award

U

University of Johannesburg Prize

See also

List of literary awards#South African literature