Deadline: 29 July 2011 (from 30 June 2011)
Due to the huge public interest in the South African Literary Awards, the SALA organizers have decided to extend the Call for Submissions deadline from 30th June to 29th July 2011.
“We encourage and call on authors who write in all South African official, especially, indigenous languages, to submit their work for SALA 2011 edition”, said the SALA Director, Morakabe Raks Seakhoa.
While we are pleased with the current submissions in English and Afrikaans and encourage more in this extended deadline, we are a bit disappointed in work submitted in the indigenous languages, concluded Seakhoa.
The categories for 2011 are:
1. Lifetime Achievement Literary Award
2. Posthumous Literary Award
3. Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award (for writing in African Languages in the RSA)
4. k.Sello Duiker Memorial Award
5. Literary Translators Awards
6. Literary Journalism Award
7. Poetry Award
8. First-time published Author Award
Selections are made from published authors whose primary input is in imaginative writing - fiction as well as creative non-fiction, i.e. biographies/autobiographies, letters, speeches and memoirs. The work must demonstrate good linguistic presentation, the nation’s identity, the societal values, universal truths, and cultural aesthetics, contribution to social cohesion and nation building and transcendence of time.
The main aim of the South African Literary Awards is to pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as groundbreaking producers and creators of literature, while it celebrates literary excellence in the depiction and sharing of South Africa’s histories, value systems and philosophies and art as inscribed and preserved in all the languages of South Africa, particularly the Official Languages. The awards aim to become the most prestigious and respected literary accolades in South African literature.
Founded by the wRite associates in partnership with the Department Of Arts and Culture and supported by, Sowetan Aggrey Klaaste Nation Building Projects, the National Arts Council of South Africa, the SABC as well as Nutrend, SALA has played a significant role to encourage and motivate writers to raise the bar in our literary endeavours.
Submission can be posted to PO Box 4488, Randburg, 2125 or delivered at 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge, 2165.
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Contact Information:
For inquiries: info@sala.org.za, or call 011 791 3585 or 011 791 4102
For submissions: PO Box 4488, Randburg, 2125; or delivered at 74 Mimosa Road, Randpark Ridge, 2165
Website: http://www.sala.org.za/