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History
The Olive Schreiner Prize is an annual award to new and emergent talent administered by the English Academy of South Africa. The prize rotates annually among the genres of drama, prose and poetry. The award is named after Olive Schreiner, the South African author and activist. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner_Prize)
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Year: 1982
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Another Year in Africa
Johannesburg
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Bateleur Press
,
1980
Z1286609
1980
single work
novel
historical fiction
This novel is the first in a trilogy. It portrays Jewish emigrants from Lithuania who settle in South Africa in the 1920s. It explores the pains of exile, the breaking of old bonds and how a child growing up is caught between two cultures.
