The Sunday Times Literary Awards are composed of two awards, fiction and non-fiction, given by the South African newspaper The Sunday Times. The awards are the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (formerly Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2001–14) and the Alan Paton Award for works of non-fiction (1989-present).
The prize was restructured in 2015 with the Sunday Times Fiction Prize renamed the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, which was then merged with the Alan Paton Award to form the Sunday Times Literary Awards; the money for each prize was increased in 2015 from R75 000 to R100 000.
The Barry Rong Fiction Prize was renamed in 2015, formerly the Sunday Times Fiction Prize from 2001 to 2014. It is named for Barry Ronge, a South African journalist best known for his "Spit and Polish" column in the Sunday Times.
Recipients
2016 Nkosinathi Sithole, Hunger Eats a Man
2015 Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
2014 Claire Robertson for The Spiral House
2013 Karen Jayes for For the Mercy of Water
2012 Michiel Heyns for Lost Ground
2011 Sifiso Mzobe for Young Blood
2010 Imraan Coovadia for High Low In-between
2009 Anne Landsman for The Rowing Lesson
2008 Ceridwen Dovey for Blood Kin
2007 Marlene van Niekerk for Agaat
2006 Andrew Brown for Coldsleep Lullaby
2005 Justin Cartwright for The Promise of Happiness
2004 Rayda Jacobs for Confessions of a Gambler
2003 André P Brink for The Other Side of Silence
2002 Ivan Vladislavic for The Restless Supermarket
2001 Zakes Mda for The Heart of Redness
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 that 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 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.
Recipients
2016 – Pumla Dineo Gqola for Rape: A South African Nightmare
2015 – Jacob Dlamini for Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
2014 – Max du Preez for A Rumour of Spring: South Africa after 20 Years of Democracy
2013 – Redi Tlhabi for Endings and Beginnings
2012 – Hugh Lewin for Stones against the Mirror
2011 – Ronnie Kasrils for The Unlikely Secret Agent
2010 – Albie Sachs for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
2009 – Peter Harris for In a Different Time
2008 – Mark Gevisser for Thabo Mbeki - The Dream Deferred
2007 – Ivan Vladislavic for Portrait with Keys
2006 – Jointly awarded to
2005 – Jonny Steinberg for The Number
2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night
2003 – Jonny Steinberg for Midlands
2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station
2001 – Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass
2000 – Anthony Sampson for Mandela: The Authorised Biography
1999 – Jointly awarded to
1998 – John Reader for Africa: A Biography of a Continent
1997 – Charles van Onselen for The Seed is Mine
1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya
1995 – Nelson Mandela for Long Walk to Freedom
1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for Return to Paradise
1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal
1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa
1991 – Albie Sachs for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise
1989 – Marq de Villiers for White Tribe Dreaming
