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 which rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry.
The award is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist.
2014 Drama: Philip Dikotla, Skierlik
2013 Prose: Peter Dunseith, The Bird of Heaven
2012 Drama: Nicholas Spagnoletti, London Road
2011 Drama: No Award
2010 Poetry: Finuala Dowling, Notes from the Dementia Ward
2009 Prose: Michael Cawood Green, For The Sake of Silence
2008 Drama: No Award
2007 Poetry: Rustum Kozain, This Carting Life
2006 Prose: Jane Taylor, Of Wild Dogs; Russel Brownlee, Garden of the Plagues
2005 Drama: John Kani, Nothing but the Truth
2004 Poetry: Isobel Dixon, Weather Eye
2003 Prose: Hugh Lewin, Bandiet out of Jail
2002 Drama: Xoli Norman, Halleluja
2001 Poetry: Mzi Mahola, When Rains Come
2000 Prose: Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull
1999 Drama: Moira Lovell, Bedtime Stories
1998 Poetry: Dan Wylie, The Road Out
1997 Prose: Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying
1996 Drama: Zakes Mda, The Nun's Romantic Story
1995 Poetry: Allan James, Morning near Genadendal
1994 Prose: Deena Padayachee, What's Love Got to Do with It?
1993 Drama: No Award
1992 Poetry: Tatamkulu Afrika, Nine Lives
1991 Prose: Ivan Vladislavic, Missing Persons
1990 Drama: Norman Coombe, A Snake in the Garden
1989 Poetry: Kelwyn Sole, Blood of Our Silence
1988 Prose:John Conyngham, The Arrowing of the Cane
1987 Drama: No Award
1986 Poetry: Lionel Abrahams, Journal of a New Man
1985 Prose: Menan du Plessis, A State of Fear
1985 Drama: Junction Avenue Theatre Company, Randlords and Rotgut
1983 Poetry: Chris Mann, New Shades
1982 Prose: Rose Zwi, Another Year In Africa
1981 Drama: No Award
1980 Poetry: Patrick Cullinan, Today Is Not Different
1979 Prose: Ahmed Essop, The Hajji And Other Stories
1978 Drama: John Cundill, Redundant & Waiting
1977 Poetry: Robert Greig, Talking Bull
1976 Prose: Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast
1975 Drama: Douglas Livingstone, A Rhino For the Boardroom
1974 Poetry: Oswald Mtshali, The Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
1973 Prose:Sheila Fugard, The Castaway
1972 Drama:No Award
1971 Poetry: Elias Pater, In Praise of Night
1970 Prose: No Award
1969 Drama: No Award
1968 Poetry: Sydney Clouts, One Life
1967 Prose: M. F. C. Roebuck, Nyitso: a novel of West Africa
1966 Drama: No Award
1965 Poetry: No Award
1964 Prose: Anna M. Louw, 20 Days That Autumn
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