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Ingrid Jonker 2020 Finalists uHlanga

Three uHlanga authors shortlisted for 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize

July 3, 2020

We are delighted to announce that Musawenkosi Khanyile, Maneo Mohale, and Saaleha Idrees Bamjee have been shortlisted for the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize, for their respective debut collections, All the Places, Everything Is A Deathly Flower, and Zikr.

The Ingrid Jonker Prize is one of South Africaโ€™s most prestigious literary awards, awarded in alternate years to a first collection of poetry in English or Afrikaans, the two languages in which Jonker herself wrote.

uHlanga authors make up three quarters of this yearโ€™s awards shortlist, which is for collections published in 2018 and 2019. The fourth finalist is Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta, whose collection Skeptical Erections was published by our colleagues at Deep South.

According to the rules of the prize the judges have to be published poets, since it is a prize from poets to poets. This year the judges were Vonani Bila, Wendy Woodward and Sindiswa Busuku, winner of the 2018 Prize. Ronel de Goede convenes the Ingrid Jonker Committee. Finuala Dowling is the convenor of the English prize. The other committee members are Vincent Oliphant, Kobus Moolman and Marius Crous. A former chairperson Danie Marais acts as advisor to the committee.

Congratulations to all the writers, as well to as the editors of the collections, Francine Simon (Everything Is A Deathly Flower) and Nick Mulgrew (All the Places and Zikr). The winner will be announced on 13 July 2020, and the winner will receive R10 000.

← Saaleha Idrees Bamjee wins the 2020 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Poetry in EnglishOpen submissions in February 2021 →

About uHlanga

uHlanga is a small South African poetry press run by Nick Mulgrew.

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Outside of South Africa, many of our books are available print-on-demand through the African Books Collective.


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In 2014, uHlanga was born as a small poetry magazine from KwaZulu-Natal. There were too few places that celebrated South African poetry, especially that of writers just starting out.

We began publishing books in 2015. Ten years later, we’ve pu
In 2014, uHlanga was born as a small poetry magazine from KwaZulu-Natal. There were too few places that celebrated South African poetry, especially that of writers just starting out. We began publishing books in 2015. Ten years later, we’ve published both debut writers and established voices. We’ve seen our books win national and international prizes, live on in syllabuses, and be pressed into the hands of new readers who whisper, “This one changed me.” We’ve spent a decade building a home for South African poetry that is bold, quiet, strange, familiar, brave and yes, beautiful. To everyone who has submitted, published, read, stocked, reviewed, taught, shared, or loved an uHlanga book — thank you. Here’s to ten years of poems. And to whatever comes next ๐Ÿ“š #uHlanga #TenYearsOfUhlanga #poetry #poemspoemspoems
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The breeze is disobedient, and the leaves fleet away like dust.”

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