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Dixon sweeps board at SA Prizes

18.06.07 Joel Rickett

London literary agent Isobel Dixon saw her authors sweep the board at the Sunday Times Literary Awards, South Africa's equivalent of the Man Booker Prize. Dixon, who was born and educated in South Africa but now works in the UK for the Blake Friedmann Agency, represents all four of the winners and the runners-up of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for Non-fiction.

The winner of the R75,000 fiction prize was Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk, translated from the Afrikaans by Michael Heynes (who is also represented by Dixon). Agaat will be published in the UK by Little, Brown in November, titled The Way of the Women. Runner-up was Imran Coovadia's Green-Eyed Thieves.

In non-fiction the R75,000 laurels went to Ivan Vladislavic for Portrait with Keys, published in the UK by Portobello. Vladislavic won the fiction prize in 2002 for The Restless Supermarket. Runner-up was
Denis Hirson's White Scars.

Prizes Joel Rickett Booker Prize Isobel Dixon Sunday Times Literary Award Cape Town Book Fair

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