Alba Bouwer Prize facts for kids
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The Alba Bouwer Prize (Afrikaans: Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a special award for excellent children's literature written in Afrikaans. It is given out every three years by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. To win, a book must have been published in the last three years. It also needs to be for children younger than 12 years old.
The prize is named after a famous children's author, Alba Bouwer (1920–2010). She herself won another important award, the Scheepers Prize for youth literature, three times. That prize started in 1956.
Who Has Won the Alba Bouwer Prize?
This prize celebrates the best children's books in Afrikaans. Here is a list of the talented authors and their winning books:
| Year | Author | Book 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) |
| 2022 | Jaco Jacobs | Die boekwinkel tussen die wolke |
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