Jonny Steinberg and Andrew Brown win at 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards
Steinberg won the non-fiction award for 'Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage' while Brown took home the fiction prize for 'The Bitterness of Olives'.
Bongani Bingwa speaks to journalist Jennifer Crwys-Williams to discuss the Sunday Times Literary Awards, which celebrate literary achievement.
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On Thursday (31 October), Jonny Steinberg and Andrew Brown were announced winners of the 2024 Sunday Times Literary Awards, in partnership with Exclusive Books at The Melrose Gallery in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg.
Steinberg won the non-fiction award for Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage.
Winnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its centre, but an entire nation.
Andrew Brown took home the fiction prize for The Bitterness of Olives.
Judges called the novel “[a] harrowing account of a moment of strife, beautifully told. The author, endowed with vivid imagination coupled with acumen and erudition, deftly immerses the reader in a brutal and bewildering landscape. A wholly sublime narrative, this novel is contemporaneous, daring, complex and aesthetically pleasing.”
Each winner receives R100,000.
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