Alan Paton AwardWinner

Given by Sunday Times (South Africa)

Other Names: Sunday Times Alon Paton Award
33 Works 9,411 Books 141 Reviews 4.2
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 show more 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 show less
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Winner 33

WorkYear
Bloody Sunday: The nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa's secret massacre by Mignonne Breier2022
These Are Not Gentle People: A True Story by Andrew Harding2021
The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme by Bongani Ngqulunga2018
Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of South Africa's Marikana Massacre by Greg Marinovich2017
Rape: A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola2016
Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-apartheid Struggle by Jacob Dlamini2015
A Rumour of Spring: South Africa after 20 Years of Democracy by Max Du Preez2014
Endings & Beginnings: A Story of Healing by Redi Tlhabi2013
Stones against the mirror : friendship in the time of the South African struggle by Hugh Lewin2012
The Unlikely Secret Agent by Ronnie Kasrils2011
The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs2010
In a Different Time: The inside story of the Delmas four by Peter Harris2009
Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred by Mark Gevisser2008
Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Ivan Vladislavić2007
Aidsafari: A Memoir of My Journey with Aids by Adam Levin2006
The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs by Jonny Steinberg2005
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela2004
Midlands by Jonny Steinberg2003
The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine by Jonathan Kaplan2002
Een mond vol glas by Henk van Woerden2001
Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson2000
Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary by Stephen Clingman1999
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog1999
Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader1998
The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 by Charles Van Onselen1997
The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa by Margaret McCord1996
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela1995
Return to Paradise by Breyten Breytenbach1994
Tramp Royal by Tim Couzens1993
The Scramble for Africa: 1876–1912 by Thomas Pakenham1992
The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter by Albie Sachs1991
The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7 by J. B. Peires1990
White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed 8 Generations Afrikaner Family by Marq de Villiers1989

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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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