The World is What it Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul 2008
John O’Hara
Frank Mac Shane
The Life of John O’Hara 1987
Sylvia Plath
Janet Malcolm
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes 1994
Jacqueline Rose
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath 1991
Katherine Anne Porter
John Givner
Katherine Anne Porter: A Life 1990
Anthony Powell
Hilary Spurling
Invitation to the Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time 1976
Jean Rhys
Carol Angier
Jean Rhys: Life and Work 1990
Lillian Pizzichini
The Blue Hour 2009
Frank Sargeson
Michael King
Frank Sargeson: A Life 1995
Paul Scott
Hilary Spurling
Paul Scott: A Life 1990
Christina Stead
Hazel Rowley
Christina Stead: A Biography 1993
John Steinbeck
Jay Parini
John Steinbeck: A Biography 1995
Jackson J. Benson
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography 1989
Peter Taylor
Hubert Horton McAlexander
Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life 2004
John Kennedy Toole
George Hardy
Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole 2001
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Claire Harman
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography 1989
Evelyn Waugh
Selina Hastings
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography 1995
Eudora Welty
Paul Binding
The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer 1994
Patrick White
David Marr
Patrick White: A Life 1991
P. G. Wodehouse
Frances Donaldson
P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorised Biography 1992
Robert McCrum
P. G. Wodehouse: A Life 2004
Literary Prizewinners
BOOKER PRIZE
Author must be a citizen of the Commonwealth, Pakistan, or the Republic of Ireland. No short stories or novellas. No English translation. Formerly named the Booker McConnell Prize.
1969 Something to Answer For P. H. Newby
1970 The Elected Member Bernice Rubens
1971 In a Free State V. S. Naipaul
1972 G John Berger
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell
1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer Holiday Stanley Middleton
1975 Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1976 Saville David Storey
1977 Staying On Paul Scott
1978 The Sea, the Sea Iris Murdoch
1979 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
1980 Rites of Passage William Golding
1981 Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
1982 Schindler’s Ark Thomas Keneally (US: Schindler’s List)
1983 Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee
1984 Hôtel du Lac Anita Brookner
1985 The Bone People Keri Hulme
1986 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
1987 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
1989 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
1990 Possession A. S. Byatt
1991 The Famished Road Ben Okri
1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
1994 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
1995 The Ghost Road Pat Barker
1996 Last Orders Graham Swift
1997 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan
1999 Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
2000 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
2002 Life of Pi Yann Martel
2003 Vernon God Little D. B. C. Pierre
2004 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
2005 The Sea John Banville
2006 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
2007 The Gathering Anne Enright
2008 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
2009 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
2010 The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
THE CNA AWARD
Authors must be of South African birth or registered permanent residents of South Africa. Books entered for the award must be published in a South African edition. Any original work written in any of the indigenous or official languages of South Africa is eligible for consideration.
1961 The Desert Place Siegfried Stander
1962 The Bull from the Sea Mary Renault
1963 The Seed and the Sower Laurens van der Post
1964 Hofmeyr Alan Paton
1965 British Supremacy in South Africa 1899–1907 G. H. le May
1966 No Ordinary Woman Thelma Gutsche
1967 The Hunter and the Whale Laurens van der Post
1968 The Horse Thief Siegfried Stander
1969 No award
1970 The Stone Fish John McIntosh
1971 The Rain-Maker Jack Cope
1972 The Castaways Sheila Fugard
1973 Apartheid and the Archbishop Alan Paton
1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer
1975 Selected Poems Guy Butler
1976 Border Anthony Delius
1977 In the Heart of the Country J. M. Coetzee
1978 Rumours of Rain André Brink
1979 Burger’s Daughter Nadine Gordimer
1980 Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee
1981 July’s People Nadine Gordimer
1982 A Chain of Voices André Brink
1983 Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee
1984 Selected Poems Douglas Livingstone
1985 Call Me Woman Ellen Kuzwayo
1986 The Twenty-Ninth Parallel David Robbins
1987 Phoebe and Nio E. M. Macphail
1988 White Boy Running Christopher Hope
1989 Memory of Snow and of Dust Breyten Breytenbach
1990 My Son’s Story Nadine Gordimer