Alba Bouwer Prize facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Alba Bouwer Prize |
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The Alba Bouwer Prize (Afrikaans: Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a special award for amazing children's literature written in Afrikaans. It's given out every three years by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. This prize celebrates books that are truly outstanding for young readers.
To win, a book must have been published in the last three years. It also needs to be written for kids under 12 years old. The award is named after Alba Bouwer (1920–2010). She was a very famous children's author herself. Alba Bouwer even won another important award, the Academy's Scheepers Prize for youth literature, three times! That award started in 1956.
Who Has Won the Alba Bouwer Prize?
This prize has been given to many talented writers over the years. Here is a list of some of the authors and their books that have won this special award:
| Year | Author | Title |
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| 1989 | Freda Linde | Strepie en Kurfie (1987) |
| 1992 | Barrie Hough | Droomwa (1990) |
| Marietjie de Jongh | Braam en die engel (1991) | |
| 1995 | Corlia Fourie | Die towersak en ander stories (1994) |
| Die wit vlinder (1993) | ||
| 1998 | Philip de Vos | Moenie 'n mielie kielie nie (1995) |
| 2001 | Martie Preller | Die Balkie-boek (2000) |
| 2004 | Leon de Villiers | Droomoog Diepgrawer (2003) |
| 2007 | Jaco Jacobs | Wurms met tamatiesous en ander lawwe rympies (2005) |
| 2010 | Linda Rode | In die Nimmer-Immer-bos (2009) |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Wasserman | Anna Atoom-reeks (2012) |
| 2016 | Kobus Geldenhuys | Hoekom die walvisse gekom het (a translation of Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo) |
| 2019 | Jaco Jacobs | Moenie hierdie boek eet nie! (2016) |
