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Olive Schreiner Award for Fiction
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History

The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa. The prize rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry. The award is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner_Prize)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1982

winner y separately published work icon Another Year in Africa Rose Zwi , Johannesburg : Bateleur Press , 1980 Z1286609 1980 single work novel historical fiction This novel is the first in a trilogy. It portrays Jewish emigrants from Lithuania who settle in South Africa in the 1920s. It explores the pains of exile, the breaking of old bonds and how a child growing up is caught between two cultures.
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