Alba Bouwer Prize

Alba Bouwer Prize
Afrikaans: Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur
Awarded for	outstanding children's literature in Afrikaans
Sponsored by	South African Academy of Science and Arts
Country	South Africa

The Alba Bouwer Prize (Afrikaans : Alba Bouwerprys vir Kinderliteratuur) is a prize for outstanding children's literature in Afrikaans, awarded triennially by the South African Academy of Science and Arts. ^[1] Works qualifying for the prize should have been published within the preceding three years, and be intended for under-12s. The prize is named in honour of children's author Alba Bouwer (1920–2010), herself a three-time winner of the Academy's Scheepers Prize for youth literature  [ af ], instituted in 1956.

Recipients

Alba Bouwer Prize recipients ^{[2] [3]}

Year	Author	Title
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 [4]	Jaco Jacobs	Die boekwinkel tussen die wolke

References

1. Official list Archived 2008-02-15 at the Wayback Machine of prizes and awards of the South African Academy of Science and Arts (in Afrikaans). Accessed 31 January 2008.
2. List of recipients of the Alba Bouwer Prize Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at storiewerf.co.za (in Afrikaans). Accessed 26 January 2008.
3. "Alba Bouwerprys". Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
4. "Naudé wen Hertzogprys met 'Dol heuning'". Maroela Media (in Afrikaans). 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2025-04-14.

External links

• Children's literature portal

• South African Academy of Science and Arts (in Afrikaans)