List of South African literary awards

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.

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