It's time to enter the Sunday Times Literary Awards

26 February 2023 - 00:00

This is a call for entries for the Sunday Times Literary Awards in partnership with Exclusive Books

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Entries are now open. Please see rules and procedures.
The Sunday Times Literary Awards in partnership with Exclusive Books Entries are now open. Please see rules and procedures.
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The year’s most prestigious literary awards, open to South African-published books released between January and December 2022, are now in motion. The Sunday Times Literary Awards are the most lucrative book awards on the continent and vital in the cultural life of South Africans.​ This year each winner receives R100,000.

RULES AND PROCEDURES

Submissions are invited from publishers for the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards in partnership with Exclusive Books for non-fiction and fiction. 

  • For submission rules and procedures, and to download 2022 entry forms, visit https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books

  • The list of titles that publishers wish to enter should reach the convenors by email by Tuesday, March 14 2023.

  • Publishers are to provide any full-length fiction or non-fiction work relating to southern Africa and published between December 1 2021 and December 1 2022

  • Publishers are requested to email a list of FOUR TITLES, per imprint. Please submit a list of other titles published that are eligible. 

  • All entry forms must be sent to Jennifer Platt of the Sunday Times, at jennifer@book.co.za, by no later than Tuesday, March 14 2023

  • Only upon receiving notification from the conveners that a title or titles have been included on the long-list, should publishers send FIVE print copies of each title to the Sunday Times.

The Sunday Times Literary Awards have become a barometer of the nation’s mood, its preoccupations and fears, and are sought after by publishers and writers. Last year the fiction winner was Junx by Tshidiso Moletsane (Umuzi).

The winner of the non-fiction award was Mignonne Breier for Bloody Sunday: The Nun, The Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre (Tafelberg).

Click here for the submission rules and procedures for non-fiction.

Click here for the submission rules and procedures for fiction. 


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