Biographer, novelist win our literary awards
24 June 2018 - 00:00
Bongani Ngqulunga and Harry Kalmer were announced the winners of the 2018 Sunday Times Literary Awards, in association with Porcupine Ridge, at a gala event in Johannesburg last night.
The awards are considered the most prestigious literary accolade in South Africa.
Ngqulunga received the 29th Alan Paton Award for nonfiction for The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme, and Kalmer was the recipient of the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for his book, A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg. Both titles are published by Penguin Books. The authors each received R100,000...
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