Sherperds and Butchers
[Paperback (B Format)]
- Published By:
- Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Date Published:
- 5 December 2007
- pages:
- 0.34 bytes
- DRM Restrictions:
- No Copy Allowed
No Print Allowed
No Lending Allowed
No Reading Aloud Allowed
- Item Code:
- 9781415200445
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SHEPHERDS & BUTCHERS WINS THE K. SELLO DUIKER MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD
Umuzi is proud to announce that Chris Marnewick's Shepherds & Butchers has been awarded the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award, which forms part of the South African Literary Awards. A formal prize-giving ceremony will be held at a function in December 2010.
Founded by the wRite Associates in partnership with the National Ministry of Arts & Culture, the South African Literary Awards endeavour to pay long overdue homage and honour to literary practitioners and legends while encouraging the advancement of South Africa's literary heritage and practice.
Published in 2008, the novel's other accolades include being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize (African Region), and the M-Net Literary Awards, as well as winning the University of Johannesburg Prize for the best creative debut work in English.
Shepherds and Butchers is a cliff-hanger courtroom drama that, in a potent blend of fiction and non-fiction, explores the psychology and physical details of capital punishment by hanging as incisively as seldom before.
Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and writer of the screenplay for the blockbuster movie, says: 'The riveting way in which Chris Marnewick has fused fact and fiction and explored the fine line between human frailty and human cruelty, makes Shepherds & Butchers unforgettable.'
More praise for Shepherds & Butchers:
Unputdownable - Etienne van Heerden, LitNet
Possibly the most gripping, most gruelling novel I've read - Vivien Horler, Cape Argus
Surely one of the most important South African novels of the year - Andrew Trench, Saturday Despatch
Astonishing tour de force - James Mitchell
Superb, intensely disturbing novel ought to be mandatory reading - Gwen Podbrey, S.A. Jewish Report
Umuzi is proud to announce that Chris Marnewick's Shepherds & Butchers has been awarded the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award, which forms part of the South African Literary Awards. A formal prize-giving ceremony will be held at a function in December 2010.
Founded by the wRite Associates in partnership with the National Ministry of Arts & Culture, the South African Literary Awards endeavour to pay long overdue homage and honour to literary practitioners and legends while encouraging the advancement of South Africa's literary heritage and practice.
Published in 2008, the novel's other accolades include being shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize (African Region), and the M-Net Literary Awards, as well as winning the University of Johannesburg Prize for the best creative debut work in English.
Shepherds and Butchers is a cliff-hanger courtroom drama that, in a potent blend of fiction and non-fiction, explores the psychology and physical details of capital punishment by hanging as incisively as seldom before.
Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and writer of the screenplay for the blockbuster movie, says: 'The riveting way in which Chris Marnewick has fused fact and fiction and explored the fine line between human frailty and human cruelty, makes Shepherds & Butchers unforgettable.'
More praise for Shepherds & Butchers:
Unputdownable - Etienne van Heerden, LitNet
Possibly the most gripping, most gruelling novel I've read - Vivien Horler, Cape Argus
Surely one of the most important South African novels of the year - Andrew Trench, Saturday Despatch
Astonishing tour de force - James Mitchell
Superb, intensely disturbing novel ought to be mandatory reading - Gwen Podbrey, S.A. Jewish Report
