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2010 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and Alan Paton Award Longlists

by Ben - Editor on May 30th, 2010 twitter
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Alert! The longlists for the R75 000 Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the R75 000 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction – Africa’s largest literary prizes for single works – have been announced.

Here are Sunday Times books editor Tymon Smith’s notes on gongs:

Alan Paton Award

The 21st edition of the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction sees a list of entries that continues to reflect the national concerns of a burgeoning and eclectic group of authors. As always, the judges for this year’s awards faced the difficult task of ingesting the barrage of information provided in the 40 titles in contention for Africa’s premier literary award.

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Ficiton Prize

Writers working with the present moment and its uniquely perplexing characters produced a fascinating body of work that examines everything from the cut-throat world of the boardroom in Carel van der Merwe’s Shark to the zany business of being a magistrate with a bodyguard in Zakes Mda’s Black Diamond, the sombre reality of circumcision in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man, the cultural clashes of life as a curry Mafia princess in Zinaid Meeran’s Saracen at the Gates and the plight of post-apartheid refugees in Andrew Brown’s Refuge.

2009’s winners were Anne Landsman (fiction – The Rowing Lesson) and Peter Harris (Alan Paton – In a Different Time). This year, the BOOK SA members on the lists are happily too numerous to mention.

It would not be amiss to observe that Antjie Krog appears twice on the Alan Paton Longlist – for Begging to Be Black and There Was This Goat, the latter written with Nosisi Mpolweni, Kopano Ratele.

The shortlists for the 2010 awards will be announced on Thursday 3 June at a cocktail function in Johannesburg. Here are the longlists, with titles given in the order that they were sent to BOOK SA:

Sunday Times Fiction Prize Longlist

Patterns of ChangeTo Heaven by WaterSummertimeCome SundayBeasts of PreyThe Double CrownSaracen at the GatesBlack Petals

The Transplant MenCounting Sleeping BeautiesShivas DanceTrinity RisingDaddy's GirlThe Shape of HimTrespassSmall Moving Parts

The Elephant in the RoomThe Book of the DeadLittle Ice Cream BoySleeper's WakeHouse of WarBlack DiamondKings of the WaterExhibit A

Revenge of KaliThe Bird of HeavenVaselinetjieA Man Who is Not a ManHigh Low In-betweenSharkRefuge

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The Double Crown: Secret Writings of the Female Pharaoh

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Saracen at the Gates

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The Elephant in the Room

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Sunday Times Alan Paton Award Longlist

Fly Fishing for SharksThe Honour to ServeA Fork in the RoadNotes from the Middle WorldThe Deaths of HintsaBounds of DemocracyCleaner Energy Cooler ClimateThe Maputo ConnectionRadical EngagementsThe Democratic MomentNative NostalgiaRunning with HorsesPeople's WarHaniThe Lost BoyWire Me a MillionSomething On My Mind - Kate JowellThe Strange Alchemy of Life and LawJohnny Golightly Comes HomeThe Secret ElephantsRose of SowetoBetween the LinesSouth Africa's Brave New WorldWays of StayingEmperor Can WaitSecond is NothingArchitects of PovertyBegging to be BlackJohannesburg TransitionIn Your FaceAlf KumaloThe Toxic MixThere Was This GoatBlack JerusalemHeart of AfricaDonkey CrossingsThe Griqua's ApprenticeInvadedThe Origins of Non-racialismSara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

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The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts

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Cleaner Energy Cooler Climate: Developing sustainable energy solutions for Africa

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Hani: A life too short

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Emperor Can Wait: Memories and Recipes from Taiwan

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Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing

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The Toxic Mix: What’s wrong with South Africa’s schools and how to fix it

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Invaded: The Biological Invasion of South Africa

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The Origins of Non-racialism: White opposition to apartheid in the 1960s

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  • <a href="http://helenmoffett.book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Helen</a>
    Helen
    May 30th, 2010 @11:30 #
     
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    Oh gosh, where do I start with the congratulations??? Let me be democratic and say how pleased I am about ALL the long-listees. But on the Alan Paton award list, I have a warm glow for those friends who were so wonderful to me during my time at Emory: Premesh and Pamela. For the rest, there are really too many great writers and good friends to single anyone out (except maybe Sarah and Fifi and Maya and Kgebetli and Imraan and Leonie and Margie and Jane T and Jacob and Marie and Dawn and Andrew -- again): mazel tov!

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  • <a href="http://www.moxyland.com" rel="nofollow">Lauren Beukes</a>
    Lauren Beukes
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    Wow, probably the most exciting longlist I've seen. I pity the judges. It's hard for me to pick a favourite - there are some serious contenders in there. Big congratulations to everyone.

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  • <a href="http://livewriting.book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Maire</a>
    Maire
    May 30th, 2010 @22:33 #
     
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    Congratulations all BOOK SAers! A hugely impressive list, with many of the (very) impressive names coming from this site!

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  • <a href="http://richarddenooy.book.co.za" rel="nofollow">Richard de Nooy</a>
    Richard de Nooy
    May 31st, 2010 @09:00 #
     
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    Wow, impressive indeed. Well done, all!

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