Fiction Shortlist
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The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2024
The Sunday Times Literary Awards are a celebration of local writing, showcasing the finest of both fiction and non-fiction. The Sunday Times, in proud partnership with Exclusive Books, is pleased to announce the longlist for South Africa’s most prestigious annual literary awards for fiction and non-fiction.
This year marks the 34th anniversary of the non-fiction prize award and the 23rd anniversary of the fiction prize award.
Books are vital to the Sunday Times, as they provide authors and journalists with the platform for truth-telling, holding the powerful to account, and sharing quintessentially South African narratives.
Congratulations to Jonny Steinberg for winning the Non-Fiction Prize and Andrew Brown for winning the Fiction Prize! Shop the winners below:
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The Bitterness of Olives
‘Why can you not be friends anymore?’It was the story of his country, he supposed. Perhaps they could have been friends. Perhaps they were once. The reasons were complex, full of feeling, disappointment, resentment. And, of course, betrayal. This was the Middle East after all.Avi Dahan, a retired detective mourning his beloved wife in Tel Aviv, and Khalid Mansour, a Palestinian doctor confronting the precarious reality of living in Gaza City, are still reeling from the political fallout that jeopardised their delicate friendship. When a mysterious corpse scarred by history and forbidden love shows up in Khalid’s emergency room, he reaches out to Avi for help. Though the detective is the only one who might be able to assist, he is the last person on earth to agree …The stage is set for Andrew Brown’s unforgettable new novel, The Bitterness of Olives.Did it really matter? In the face of chaos, was it important how she had died? That was the guidance he needed from Avi now. He needed to understand that question: did it matter anymore? Was it of any significance, how you died in a war?
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Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela remains largely untold. During his imprisonment, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband’s politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war. Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage, turning the course of South African history into a page-turning political biography. Winnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple, but an entire nation – a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution. Steinberg tells this story with power and tender emotional insight, revealing how far these forever entwined leaders would go for each other, and also where they drew the line. For in the end both knew theirs was not simply a marriage, but a struggle to define anti-apartheid itself.
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Non-fiction Shortlist
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Fiction Longlist
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