The finalists for this year's Sunday Times Literary Awards, in association with Porcupine Ridge, were announced at an event in Johannesburg last night.
The five novels short-listed for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize are:
• The Printmaker by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen (Umuzi)
• Period Pain by Kopano Matlwa (Jacana Media)
• Little Suns by Zakes Mda (Umuzi)
• The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (Chatto & Windus/PRH)
• The Safest Place You Know by Mark Winkler (Umuzi)
The five books short-listed for the Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction are:
• Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard: Life Among the Stowaways by Sean Christie (Jonathan Ball Publishers)
• Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins by Christa Kuljian (Jacana Media)
• Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of the Marikana Massacre by Greg Marinovich (Penguin Books)
• My Own Liberator by Dikgang Moseneke (Picador Africa)
• Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa by Steven Robins (Penguin Books).
The winners, who will each receive R100.000, will be announced on June 24.