A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. This is a list of notable literary awards awarded in South Africa.

Alphabetically

A

  • Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts
  • Alba Bouwer Prize
  • Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
  • ATKV Prose Prize

C

  • C.P. Hoogenhout Award
  • Central News Agency Literary Award

D

  • David Higham Prize for Fiction
  • Dinaane Debut Fiction Award

E

  • Eugène Marais Prize
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

F

  • Percy FitzPatrick Award

H

  • Hertzog Prize

I

  • Ingrid Jonker Prize

M

  • M-Net Literary Awards
  • Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
  • Mbokodo Award
  • Media24 Books Literary Awards

O

  • Olive Schreiner Prize

S

  • Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
  • South African Literary Awards
  • Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards – a suite of prizes given annually by wRite associates and the South African Dept of Arts and Culture

T

  • The Cape Tercentenary Foundation
  • Thomas Pringle Award

U

  • University of Johannesburg Prize

See also

  • List of literary awards#South African literature
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