South Africa
UJ-prys 2016 · Shortlist
Vlam in die sneeu
Nonfiction · 450 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:The love letters of two writers who met in April 1963, more than two hundred of them, from her telegram thanking him for flowers to his last letter in April 1965: one of South Africa’s most moving love affairs, published half a century later.
UJ-prys 2013 · Shortlist
Philida
Novel · 320 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:The young slave Philida walks from Franschhoek to Stellenbosch to lodge a complaint with the Protector of Slaves against her master, Cornelis Brink, who wants to sell her after she has borne his son Frans four children. Frans had promised to buy her freedom.
UJ-prys 2006 · Winner
Bidsprinkaan
Novel · 251 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Drawn from the life of the historical Cupido Kakkerlak (c. 1760–c. 1825), who was not born but brought by an eagle: after the god Heitsi-Eibib appears to him in the veld, he becomes known far and wide as a master hunter, and as the district’s drinker, liar, lover and fighter.