Alan Paton Award

The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award that 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: compassion; elegance of writing; illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power; and, intellectual and moral integrity.^[1] The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country. The award is given in conjunction with The Sunday Times Fiction Prize. Together the two prizes are jointly called The Sunday Times Literary Awards.

Recipients

• 2011 – Ronnie Kasrils for The Unlikely Secret Agent
• 2010 – Albie Sachs for The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law^[2]
• 2009 – Peter Harris for In a Different Time^[3]
• 2008 – Mark Gevisser for Thabo Mbeki - The Dream Deferred
• 2007 – Ivan Vladislavic for Portrait with Keys
• 2006 – Jointly awarded to

• Edwin Cameron for Witness to AIDS
• Adam Levin for AidSafari

• 2005 – Jonny Steinberg for The Number
• 2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for A Human Being Died That Night
• 2003 – Jonny Steinberg for Midlands
• 2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for The Dressing Station
• 2001 – Henk van Woerden for A Mouthful of Glass
• 2000 – Anthony Sampson for Mandela: The Authorised Biography
• 1999 – Jointly awarded to

• Antjie Krog for Country of My Skull
• Stephen Clingman for Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary

• 1998 – John Reader for Africa: A Biography of a Continent
• 1997 – Charles van Onselen for The Seed is Mine
• 1996 – Margaret McCord for The Calling of Katie Makanya
• 1995 – Nelson Mandela for Long Walk to Freedom
• 1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for Return to Paradise
• 1993 – Tim Couzens for Tramp Royal
• 1992 – Thomas Pakenham for Scramble for Africa
• 1991 – Albie Sachs for Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
• 1990 – Jeff Peires for The Dead Will Arise
• 1989 – Marq de Villiers for White Tribe Dreaming

References

External links

• 2008 winners
• Sunday Times – Official list of past recipients