The Central News Agency Literary Award (CNA Literary Award, CNA Prize) was a major annual literary award in South Africa

South Africa

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. It was named for the CNA chain of bookstores. Founded by Phillip Stein, it recognised works in prose and poetry, and in both the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Afrikaans

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

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The last award was presented in 1996, although CNA later launched a "Book of the Year" award for popular bestsellers of any genre.

Past winners (incomplete list)

• 1996: Sarah Ruden: Other Places (English)
• 1995: Margaret McCord: The Calling of Katie Makanye (English)
• 1993: Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Mandela
  Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
  
  : Long Road to Freedom (English)
• 1993: Chris Barnard
  Chris Barnard (author)
  Christiaan Johan Barnard is a South African author born July 15, 1939. Well known for penning various Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas....
  
  : Moerland (Afrikaans)
• 1989: Christopher Hope
  Christopher Hope
  Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa.-Life:...
  
  : White Boy Running (English)
• 1984: J. M. Coetzee: Life & Times of Michael K (English)
• 1982: André Brink
  André Brink
  André Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
  
  : A Chain of Voices (English)
• 1980: J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians; Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
  
   (English)
• 1979: Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
  
   Burger's Daughter (English)
• 1979: D.J Opperman Komas Uit 'N Bamboesstok (Afrikaans)
• 1978: André Brink: Rumours of Rain (English)
• 1977: J. M. Coetzee: In the Heart of the Country (English)
• 1976: Etienne Leroux
  Etienne Leroux
  Etienne Leroux was an influential Afrikaans author and a key member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. He was born on June 13 as Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux, son of S.P. Le Roux, a South African Minister of Agriculture....
  
   Magersfontein, O Magersfontein! (Afrikaans)
• 1975: Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
  
  ,
• 1975: Guy Butler
  Guy Butler (poet)
  Guy Butler was a South African poet and writer....
  
  : Selected Poems (English)
• 1974: Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer
  Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
  
  
• 1968: Chris Barnard
  Chris Barnard (author)
  Christiaan Johan Barnard is a South African author born July 15, 1939. Well known for penning various Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas....
  
  : Duiwel-in-die-bos (Afrikaans)
• 1965: André Brink
  André Brink
  André Philippus Brink, OIS, is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town....
  
  : Olé (Afrikaans)
• 1961: Siegfried Stander: The Desert Place (English)
• 1961: Chris Barnard
  Chris Barnard (author)
  Christiaan Johan Barnard is a South African author born July 15, 1939. Well known for penning various Afrikaans novels, novellas, columns, youth novels, short stories, plays, radio dramas, film scripts and television dramas....
  
  : Bekende onrus (Afrikaans)