List of South African literary awards

A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. This is a list of notable literary awards awarded in South Africa.

Alphabetically

A

• Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts
• Alba Bouwer Prize
• Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
• ATKV Prose Prize

C

• C.P. Hoogenhout Award
• Central News Agency Literary Award

D

• David Higham Prize for Fiction
• Dinaane Debut Fiction Award

E

• Eugène Marais Prize
• Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

F

• Percy FitzPatrick Award

G

• Gerald Kraak Anthology and Prize

H

• Hertzog Prize

I

• Ingrid Jonker Prize

M

• M-Net Literary Awards
• Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
• Mbokodo Award
• Media24 Books Literary Awards

O

• Olive Schreiner Prize

S

• Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
• Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award
• South African Literary Awards
• Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards – a suite of prizes given annually by wRite associates and the South African Dept of Arts and Culture

T

• The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
• Thomas Pringle Award

U

• University of Johannesburg Prize

See also

• List of literary awards#South African literature