Alan Paton AwardLonglist2009

Given by Sunday Times (South Africa)

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The Alan Paton Award — named for the author of Cry, The Beloved Country — has been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the näytä lisää Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate compassion elegance of writing illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power intellectual and moral integrity näytä vähemmän
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Land, power & custom : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act (tekijä: South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act)2009
A Life in Transition (tekijä: Alex Boraine)2009
The Joburg Book (tekijä: Nechama Brodie)2009
Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats: More Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past (tekijä: Max Du Preez)2009
Zuma: A Biography (tekijä: Jeremy Gordin)2009
'Sister Outsiders': The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women (Imagined South Africa) (tekijä: Devarashanam Govinden)2009
Do Not Take this Road to El-Karama (tekijä: Chris Harvie)2009
Go home or die here : violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference in South Africa (tekijä: Shireen Hassim)2009
The Arms Deal in Your Pocket (tekijä: Paul Holden)2009
Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant (tekijä: Heidi Holland)2009
Masquerade : the story of my life (tekijä: Rayda Jacobs)2009
On the contrary (tekijä: Tony Leon)2009
Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs (tekijä: Moky Makura)2009
To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa (tekijä: Xolela Mangcu)2009
The boy in you: a biography of St Andrew's College, 1855-2005 (tekijä: Marguerite Poland)2009
The Mbeki Legacy (tekijä: Brian Pottinger)2009
Laying Ghosts to Rest: Dilemmas of the Transformation in South Africa (tekijä: Mamphela Ramphele)2009
Drinking from the Dragon's Well (tekijä: Alex Smith)2009
The ANC Underground (tekijä: Raymond Suttner)2009
Hunger for Freedom: The Story of Food in the Life of Nelson Mandela (tekijä: Anna Trapido)2009
Full Circle (tekijä: Dave Varty)2009
The Fred de Vries Interviews: From Abdullah to Zille (tekijä: Fred de Vries)2009
Landmarked: Land Claims and Land Restitution in South Africa (tekijä: Cherryl Walker)2009
On the Border (tekijä: David Williams)2009
The Mandela Files (tekijä: Zapiro)2009

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The Alan Paton Award — named for the author of Cry, The Beloved Country — has been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate compassion elegance of writing illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power intellectual and moral integrity (English, Member-written)
The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. Sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the Sunday Times, recipients represent the cream of contemporary South African writers who produce works that are judged to demonstrate: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity. The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) (English, Member-written)

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