Alan Paton Award Totally Explained

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The Alan Paton Award — named for the author of Cry, The Beloved Country — has 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(External Link

compassion
elegance of writing
illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power
intellectual and moral integrity

Recipients

1989 – Marq De Villiers for White Tribe Dreaming

1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise

1991 – Albie Sachs for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa

1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal

1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for Return to Paradise

1995 – Nelson Mandela for Long Walk to Freedom

1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya

1997 – Charles van Onselen for The Seed is Mine

1998 – John Reader for

1999 – Jointly awarded to ť :*Antjie Krog for Country of My Skull

:*Stephen Clingman for

2000 – Anthony Sampson for

2001 – Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass

2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station

2003 – Jonny Steinberg for Midlands

2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night

2005 – Jonny Steinberg for The Number

2006 – Jointly awarded to ť :*Edwin Cameron for Witness to AIDS

:*Adam Levin for AidSafariFurther Information
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