The Ingrid Jonker Prize is a literary prize for the best debut work of
Afrikaans
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or
English
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poetry. It was instituted in honor of
Ingrid Jonker
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after her death in 1965.
The yearly prize, consisting of R10,000 and a medal, is awarded alternately to an Afrikaans or English poet who has published a first volume in the previous two years.
Award Winners
*2022 -
Jacques Coetzee - ''An Illuminated Darkness''
*2021 -
Ryan Pedro - ''Pienk ceramic-hondjies''
*2020 -
Saaleha Idrees Bamjee - ''Zikr''
*2019 -
Pieter Odendaal - ''Asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie''
*2018 -
Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese - ''Loud And Yellow Laughter''
*2017 -
Hilda Smits - ''die bome reusagtig soos ons was''
*2016 -
Thabo Jijana - ''Failing Maths and my other crimes''
*2015 -
Nathan Trantraal - ''Chokers en survivors''
*2014 -
Karin Schimke
Karin Schimke (born 1968) is a South African writer. She has won awards for her poetry and literary translations. She works as a writer and editor.
Early life
Karin Schimke was born in1968 in Pretoria, South Africa to a German father and Afr ...
- ''Bare & Breaking''
*2013 -
Hennie Nortjé - ''In die skadu van soveel bome''
*2012 -
Beverly Rycroft - ''Missing''
*2011 -
Melt Myburgh - ''oewerbestaan''
*2010 - At first there was not to be an award; later it was announced that
Tanya van Schalkwyk won for her volume ''Hyphen''
*2009 -
Loftus Marais - ''Staan in die algemeen nader aan vensters''
*2008 -
Megan Hall - ''Fourth Child''
*2007 -
Danie Marais - ''In die buitenste ruimte''
*2006 -
Rustum Kozain - ''This Carting Life''
*2005 -
Ilse van Staden - ''Watervlerk''
*2004 -
Finuala Dowling
Finuala Dowling (born June 1962) is a South African poet and writer.
Biography
The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Tow ...
- ''i flying''
*2003 -
Martjie Bosman - ''Landelik''
*2002 -
Kobus Moolman - ''Time like stone''
*2001 -
Zandra Bezuidenhout - ''Dansmusieke''
*2000 -
Brian Walter - ''Tracks''
*1999 -
Trienke Laurie - ''Skietspoel''
*1998 -
Dan Wylie - ''The road out''
*1997 -
Charl-Pierre Naude - ''Die nomadiese oomblik''
*1996 -
Steve Shapiro
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Biography
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- ''In a borrowed tent''
*1995 -
Gert Vlok Nel - ''Om te lewe is onnatuurlik''
*1995 -
Ken Barris - ''An advertisement for air''
*1994 - No award
*1993 -
P.J. Bosman - ''Ryp geel kring''
*1992 -
Heather Robinson
Heather Robinson Ross (born July 31, 1978) is an American screenwriter, film producer and author.
Early life
Robinson was raised in Littleton, Colorado, and graduated from Sahuaro High School in Tucson, Arizona, in 1996. She became the youn ...
- ''Under the sun''
*1991 -
H.J. Pieterse - ''Alruin''
*1990 -
John Eppel
John Eppel was born in Lydenburg, South Africa. He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), at the age of four. He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the Univers ...
- ''Spoils of War''
*1989 -
Rosa Smit - ''Krone van die narsing''
*1988 -
Graham Walker - ''The complete Libby Destrudo songbook''
*1987 -
Donald W. Riekert - ''Heuning uit die swarthaak''
*1986 - No award
*1985 - No award
*1984 -
Johann Lodewyk Marais - ''Die somer is 'n dag oud''
*1983 -
Jeremy Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin (born 12 September 1949) is a South African writer, author, and noted poet. A longtime activist in politics, Cronin is a member of the South African Communist Party and a former member of the National Executive Committee of ...
- ''Inside and out''
*1982 -
Johann de Lange
Johann de Lange (born 22 December 1959 in Pretoria, Union of South Africa) is an Afrikaans poet, short story writer and critic. He is renowned for being one of the foremost gay writers in Afrikaans, his most controversial book being ''Nagsweet'' ...
- ''Akwarelle van die dors''
*1981 -
T.T. Cloete
Theunis Theodorus Cloete (31 May 1924 – 9 July 2015) was a South African Afrikaans poet, Bible translator, essayist and academic. In the 1970s he was involved in the revision of the ''Afrikaanse Kerkgesange'' and later in the 1993 translation ...
- ''Angelliera''
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*1980 - No award
*1979 -
Mike Nicol
Mike Nicol is a South African writer and journalist. He was born in 1951 in Cape Town.
Biography
After completing his studies in Johannesburg, he worked as a journalist for the ''Leadership'' magazine.
In 1978, he published ''Among the Souvenir ...
- ''Among the souvenirs''
*1978 -
Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk (born 10 November 1954) is a South African poet, writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy ''Triomf'' (1994) and the Herzog-winning ''Agaat'' (2004), which explore themes including the ...
- ''Sprokkelster''
*1977 -
Colin Style - ''Baobab Street''
*1976 -
J.C. Steyn - ''Die grammatika van liefhê''
*1975 -
Mark Swift
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- ''Treading water''
*1974 -
Leon Strydom - ''Geleentheidsverse''
*1973 -
Mongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote (born 8 May 1944) is a South African poet and writer. He became involved in political resistance to the apartheid government by joining the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1969 was arrested and detained for several m ...
- ''Yakhal'Inkomo''
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*1972 -
Lina Spies
Carellina Pieternella (Lina) Spies (born 6 March 1939 in Harrismith, in North-Eastern Free State South Africa) is an Afrikaans poet and academic.
She received both the 1972 Eugène Marais Prize and 1972 Ingrid Jonker Prize, for her first volume ...
- ''Digby Vergenoeg''
*1971 - No award
*1970 -
Sheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons (9 August 1922 – 25 November 2004) was an Afrikaans poet. She was born on the Moravia missionary station near Piketberg, South Africa, and, after matriculating from Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool, studied fine arts at the Univer ...
- ''Plektrum''
*1969 -
Sinclair Simon Maurice Beiles - ''Ashes of experience''
*1968 -
M.M. Walters - ''Apocrypha'' and ''Cabala''
*1967 -
Sydney Clouts - ''One life''
*1966 -
D.P.M. Botes - ''Wat is 'n gewone man?''
*1965 -
Ruth Miller - ''Floating island''
References
South African literary awards
Poetry awards
Awards established in 1965
South African literary events