Central News Agency Literary Award

The Central News Agency Literary Award (CNA Literary Award, CNA Prize) was a major annual literary award in South Africa.^[1] It was named for the CNA chain of bookstores. Founded by Phillip Stein,^[2] it recognised works in prose and poetry, and in both the English language and Afrikaans.^[3]

The last award was presented in 1996,^[4] although CNA later launched a "Book of the Year" award for popular bestsellers of any genre.^[5]

Past winners (incomplete list)

This list is based on multiple sources that may contain errors.^[6][7]

	English Prize		Afrikaans Prize
Year	Recipient	Title	Recipient	Title
1996	Sarah Ruden	Other Places
1995	Margaret McCord	The Calling of Katie Makanye
1994			Karel Schoeman	Hierdie Lewe
1993	Nelson Mandela	Long Walk to Freedom	Chris Barnard	Moerland
1992	Damon Galgut	The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
1991			John Miles	Kroniek uit die Doofpot: Polisieroman
1990	Nadine Gordimer	My Son's Story
1989	Christopher Hope	White Boy Running
1986	Etienne van Heerden	Ancestral Voices
1985	Ellen Kuzwayo	Call Me Woman	T.T. Cloete	Allotroop[8]
1984	Douglas Livingstone	Selected Poems	Wilma Stockenström	Monsterverse
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life and Times of Michael K	Breyton Breytenbach	(YK): Die vierde bundel van die ongedanste dans
1982	André Brink	A Chain of Voices	Elisabeth Eybers	Bestand
1981	Nadine Gordimer	July's People	Sheila Cussons	Die Woedende Brood
1980	J. M. Coetzee	Waiting for the Barbarians	No award
1979	Nadine Gordimer	Burger's Daughter	D.J. Opperman	Komas Uit 'N Bamboesstok
1978	André Brink	Rumours of Rain	Elsa Joubert	Die Swerfjare van Poppie Nongena
1977	J. M. Coetzee	In the Heart of the Country	Elisabeth Eybers	Einder
1976	Anthony Delius	Border	Etienne Leroux	Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
1975	Guy Butler	Selected Poems	Anna M Louw	Kroniek van Perdepoort
1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Leon Rousseau	Die Groot Verlange
1973	Alan Paton	Apartheid and the archbishop: The life and times of Geoffrey Clayton, Archbishop of Cape Town	Elisabeth Eybers	Kruis of Munt
1972	Sheila Meiring Fugard	The Castaways	Karel Schoeman	Na die Geliefde Land
1971	Jack Cope	The Rain Maker	Elsa Joubert P G du Plessis	Bonga Siener in die Suburbs
1970	John McIntosh	The Stonefish	Breyten Breytenbach	Lotus
1969	No award		Breyten Breytenbach	Kouevuur
1968	Siegfried Stander	The Horse	Chris Barnard	Duiwel-in-die-bos
1967	Laurens van der Post	The Hunter and the Whale	Breyten Breytenbach	Die huis van die dowe
1966	Thelma Gutsche	No Ordinary Woman	Henriette Grové	Jaarringe
1965	Godfrey LeMay	British Supremacy in South Africa, 1899–1907	André Brink	Olé
1964	Alan Paton	Hofmeyr	Etienne Leroux	Een vir Azazel
1963	Laurens van der Post	The Seed and the Sower	D.J. Opperman	Dolosse
1962	Mary Renault	The Bull from the Sea	N.P. van Wyk Louw	Tristia: en ander verse voorspeleren vlugte
1961	Siegfried Stander	The Desert Place	Chris Barnard	Bekende onrus

See also

• Alan Paton Award
• Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
• Hertzog Prize
• W.A. Hofmeyr Prize

Notes

1. Described as the 'then principal literary award', in 1977, by nobelprize.org.
2. "RIP the Founder of the CNA Literary Award, Philip Stein | Books LIVE". Archived from the original on 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
3. There was no restriction by language within South Africa's indigenous languages (Callil and Tóibín, The Modern Library (1999) p.223); authors must be South African by birth or permanent residence.
4. Reporter, Staff (14 March 1997). "Farewell to CNA award". Mail and Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
5. Zapiro and Wilbur Smith Make the CNA "Book of the Year" Shortlist | Books LIVE
6. "African Book Awards Database". Indiana University. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
7. "Central News Agency Literary Awards". Library Thing. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
8. NB-Uitgewers: Authors. Archived 28 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

9 From the menu for the CNA Literary Awards for 1986