Announcement of winners: Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation and Thomas Pringle Award for a Literary Article

The English Academy of Southern Africa is pleased to announce the winners of the above listed awards.


SOL PLAATJE PRIZE

The Sol Plaatje Prize is awarded for excellence in translation of a literary text of at least 1 000 words in one of the other official South African languages into English. The purpose of the prize is to encourage effective mutual understanding in our multilingual country.

The 2009 Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation is awarded to Professor Jeff Opland. The award is made to Professor Opland, generally, for the extremely impressive body of work which he has produced over the course of his distinguished career, but more specifically for three books of outstanding quality which he has published in the last few years. These books are The Nation’s Bounty: The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2007), Issac Williams Wauchope: Selected Writings 1874-1916 (Cape Town: van Riebeeck Society, 2008), and S.E.K. Mqhayi’s Abantu Besizwe: Historical and Biographical Writings, 1902-1944 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2009).

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THOMAS PRINGLE AWARD (Literary Article)

The Thomas Pringle Awards are intended as encouragement for persons who have demonstrated extraordinary insights in their writing.

The 2010 Thomas Pringle Award for a Literary Article in a South African academic journal goes to Professor Leon de Kock for his article in the Journal of Literary Studies, 25(3) 2009, entitled “Cracking the Code: Translation as Transgression in Triomf”.

(Text copied from LITNET: www.litnet.co.za. 16 Feb 2011)