The Alba Bouwer Prize ( af, Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a prize for outstanding
children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.
Children's ...
in Afrikaans, awarded triennially by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. Works qualifying for the prize should have been published within the preceding three years, and be intended for under-12s. The prize is named in honour of children's author
Alba Bouwer
Albertha Magdalena Bouwer (16 March 1920 – 5 October 2010) was a South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author. She is best known for her series of children's stories about the experiences of a small girl called Alie growing up in the ...
(1920–2010), herself a three-time winner of the , instituted in 1956.
Recipients
Recipients of the Alba Bouwer Prize are:
*1989
Freda Linde, ' (1987)
*1992 Joint winners:
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Barrie Hough, ' (1990)
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Marietjie de Jongh, ' (1991)
*1995
Corlia Fourie
Cornelia Hilda Kühn (born 11 December 1944) is an Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, Fren ...
, ' (1994) and ''Die wit vlinder'' (1993)
*1998
Philip de Vos, ' (1995)
*2001
Martie Preller, ' (2000)
*2004
Leon de Villiers, ' (2003)
*2007
Jaco Jacobs, ' (2005)
*2010
Linda Rode, ' (2009)
*2013
Elizabeth Wasserman, ' (2012)
*2016
Kobus Geldenhuys, ' (a translation of ''
Why the Whales Came'' by
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo ('' né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytell ...
)
*2019 Jaco Jacobs, ' (2016)
References
External links
{{Portal , Children's literature
South African Academy of Science and Arts(in Afrikaans)
Children's literary awards
South African literary awards
Awards established in 1989
South African literary events