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]
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 |
9 From the menu for the CNA Literary Awards for 1986
