Alan Paton Award

The Alan Paton Award — named for the author of "Cry, The Beloved Country" — has 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 [http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/psychology/pgobodo/alanpaton.html] :

*compassion
*elegance of writing
*illumination of truthfulness, especially those forms of it which are new, delicate, unfashionable and fly in the face of power
*intellectual and moral integrity

Recipients

*1989 – Marq De Villiers for "White Tribe Dreaming"
*1990 – Jeff Peires for "The Dead Will Arise"
*1991 – Albie Sachs for "Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter"
*1992 – Thomas Pakenham for "Scramble for Africa"
*1993 – Tim Couzens for "Tramp Royal"
*1994 – Breyten Breytenbach for "Return to Paradise"
*1995 – Nelson Mandela for "Long Walk to Freedom"
*1996 – Margaret McCord for "The Calling of Katie Makanya"
*1997 – Charles van Onselen for "The Seed is Mine"
*1998 – John Reader for ""
*1999 – Jointly awarded to::*"'Antjie Krog for "Country of My Skull"::*Stephen Clingman for ""
*2000 – Anthony Sampson for ""
*2001 – Henk van Woerden for "A Mouthful of Glass"
*2002 – Jonathan Kaplan for "The Dressing Station"
*2003 – Jonny Steinberg for "Midlands"
*2004 – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela for "A Human Being Died That Night"
*2005 – Jonny Steinberg for "The Number"
*2006 – Jointly awarded to::*Edwin Cameron for "Witness to AIDS"::*"'Adam Levin for "AidSafari"

External links

* [http://www.thetimes.co.za/SpecialReports/BookAwards/Article.aspx?id=482608 Sunday Times – Official list of past recipients]