Alan Paton Award Winners

The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award for non-fiction, sponsored by the Johannesburg weekly the Sunday Times. The award is in honour ...more

Winners

	The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme by Bongani Ngqulunga 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings Alan Paton Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of the Marikana Massacre by Greg Marinovich 4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings Alan Paton Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rape: A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 156 ratings Alan Paton Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle by Jacob Dlamimi 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings Alan Paton Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rumour of Spring: South Africa After 20 Years of Democracy by Max Du Preez really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 99 ratings Alan Paton Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endings and Beginnings by Redi Tlhabi 4.21 avg rating — 386 ratings Alan Paton Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stones against the mirror by Hugh Lewin 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings Alan Paton Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unlikely Secret Agent by Ronnie Kasrils 3.84 avg rating — 122 ratings Alan Paton Award (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs 4.22 avg rating — 129 ratings Alan Paton Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In a Different Time: The Inside Story of the Delmas Four by Peter Harris 4.54 avg rating — 225 ratings Alan Paton Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred by Mark Gevisser 4.11 avg rating — 192 ratings Alan Paton Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Ivan Vladislavić 3.90 avg rating — 404 ratings Alan Paton Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aidsafari: a memoir of my journey with AIDS by Adam Levin 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings Alan Paton Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witness to AIDS by Edwin Cameron 3.95 avg rating — 82 ratings Alan Paton Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs by Jonny Steinberg 4.19 avg rating — 293 ratings Alan Paton Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela 4.13 avg rating — 1,072 ratings Alan Paton Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midlands by Jonny Steinberg 4.12 avg rating — 181 ratings Alan Paton Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine by Jonathan Kaplan 4.07 avg rating — 323 ratings Alan Paton Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mouthful of Glass by Henk van Woerden 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings Alan Paton Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mandela: The Authorised Biography by Anthony Sampson 4.15 avg rating — 652 ratings Alan Paton Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary by Stephen Clingman 4.33 avg rating — 43 ratings Alan Paton Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 2,807 ratings Alan Paton Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader 4.17 avg rating — 1,782 ratings Alan Paton Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 by Charles van Onselen 4.46 avg rating — 48 ratings Alan Paton Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa by Margaret McCord 3.90 avg rating — 98 ratings Alan Paton Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela 4.34 avg rating — 82,047 ratings Alan Paton Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to Paradise by Breyten Breytenbach 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings Alan Paton Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn by Tim Couzens 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings Alan Paton Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 by Thomas Pakenham 4.14 avg rating — 2,359 ratings Alan Paton Award (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter by Albie Sachs 4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings Alan Paton Award (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars