Top 10 in line for literary awards

THE finalists for this year’s Sunday Times Literary Awards, in association with Porcupine Ridge, were announced at an event in Johannesburg last night.

The five novels short-listed for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize are The Printmaker by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Umuzi), Period

Pain by Kopano Matlwa (Jacana Media), Little Suns by Zakes Mda (Umuzi), The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (Chatto & Windus/PRH), and The Safest Place You Know by Mark Winkler (Umuzi).

The five books short-listed for the Alan Paton Award for NonFiction are Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Life Among the Stowaways by Sean Christie (Jonathan Ball Publishers), Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins by Christa Kuljian (Jacana Media), Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of the Marikana Massacre by Greg Marinovich (Penguin Books), My Own Liberator by Dikgang Moseneke (Picador Africa), and Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa by Steven Robins (Penguin Books). The winners, who will each receive R100 000, will be announced on June 24.