Only months after winning the 2022 Ingrid Jonker Prize for his debut collection An Illuminated Darkness, Jacques Coetzee has this week been awarded the 2022 Olive Schreiner Prize for Poetry.

The Olive Schreiner Prize is awarded annually by the English Academy of South Africa to emerging writers in the fields of drama, prose, and poetry, rotating between those categories in a three-year cycle. Since 1961 it has been awarded to many luminaries of South African literature, including Oswald Mtshali, Douglas Livingstone, Antjie Krog, Lionel Abrahams, and many more.

Congratulations to Jacques for such an amazing feat.