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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.

Our books are available to order from all retail bookstores in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

Outside of South Africa, most of our books are available in print through the African Books Collective.


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This Mother’s Day weekend, we celebrate more than just mothers: we honour the mother tongues that hold sacred our histories, our stories.

At uHlanga, we believe mother tongues are not only a way of speaking — they are a way of rememberin
This Mother’s Day weekend, we celebrate more than just mothers: we honour the mother tongues that hold sacred our histories, our stories. At uHlanga, we believe mother tongues are not only a way of speaking — they are a way of remembering, resisting and reimagining. And so today, the start of Mother’s Day weekend, we pay tribute to the uHlanga poems and collections that have been written in isiXhosa and isiZulu. ๐Ÿš๐Ÿฆช๐ŸŒŠ Swipe for, from left, the covers of Mthunzikazi A. Mbungwana’s ‘Unam Wena’ and ‘Ilifa’ by Athambile Masola; plus Jijana’s ‘mabuya’mbo’ from ‘Failing Maths and My Other Crimes’ and ‘uBuhle bembongi zinkondlo zayo’ by Pearl S. Ndlovu. #uHlanga #MothersDay #MotherTongue #AfricanPoetry @nolali_wasecala @athambile_m @demazane_ntombazane
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“is the river
an honest mirror of our nature?
are still waters
a reflection of us?”

uHlanga is proud to present ‘Owele’, the third poetry collection by @sihlexntuli. 

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“is the river an honest mirror of our nature? are still waters a reflection of us?” uHlanga is proud to present ‘Owele’, the third poetry collection by @sihlexntuli. A family of rivers flows through the land. Their waters gather, merge and split. But even twins must create their own paths – where do their individual journeys begin, and how far must they travel to their shared destination, the vast and turbulent ocean? In Owele, Sihle Ntuli meditates on the origins of his family, clan and language through the earthen-toned rivers of the Zulu world. ใ€ฐ๏ธ Read more now at our link in bio. ๐Ÿ“ธ Featuring photographs by @samora_chapman | Author ๐Ÿ“ธ by Centre for Stories (Australia) #uHlanga #OwelePoems #poet #poems #SihleNtuli #SamoraChapman

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