By Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of @Porter_Anderson
The awards program is organized through the South African Booksbook Association and sponsored through Nielsen Book with the South African Publishers Association, or PASA, a member of the International Publishers Association. Today’s rite was meant to take a position in Durban, but was digitally sustained, of course, due to the public fitness emergency.
These awards are selected in 3 categories: adult fiction, nonfiction for adults and youth, through the votes of booksbooks, and eligible books are written through South African authors and published in the country, according to Nielsen Bookscan South Africa.
The organizers tell us that this year there were votes of several freeries.
Visibility, of course, goes to Noah this morning, who won the children’s eBook award for It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Penguin Random House). Noah was also named Book of the Year General Honor because, according to the awards program, he got the highest number of votes from e-book sellers and “the undisputed favorite” from interested retailers.
Commenting on the victories, Noah is quoted as saying: “Writing an eeeebook is a very scary experience, but turning the eeeebook into an eeeebook especially for young people is even scarier because young people have a very short attention span if their eeeebook is boring.
His reference here is the fact that his children’s book, It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Penguin Random House, April 2020), is a redesign for a more youthful version of his adult memoir, Born a Crime: Stories From a South Childhood AfricanArray.
Noah also thanked his readers and congratulated the parents who read the ebook with their children and the teachers who did so.
Informed of his victory in the eebook of the year award, Noah said: “This eebook my blood, my sweat and my tears. It’s the story of my family circle and the history of my country. “
In a message of engraved thanks, Noah said he would like to accompany some of his fellow South African authors to the show, “so that we can take some of his books to the rest of the world. “
“I think we have some of the most productive stories to tell, some of the most amazing and inspiring stories to share with others. And if we write them, other people will communicate about them, other people will.
“And that’s the purpose of South Africa, to be there, the power plant, as we knew we could be.
“I’m going to celebrate that I don’t have appointments for the coronavirus. “
Self-publishing Jackie Phamotse won the SA Book Award in the adult fiction category for her Bare: The Cradle of the Hockey Club.
And Pieter du Toit won the adult nonfiction award for his Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club (Jonathan Ball
The winner of the category is bold.
Adult fiction
Nonfiction works for adults
Children’s books (fiction and documentary)
At the time of writing, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center update at 0623 ET (10:23 GMT) recorded 674,339 cases in the South African population of millions, with 16,734 deaths.
The BBC reports that the South African economy lost up to 2. 2 million jobs in the 2020 quarter to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic Most companies closed for five weeks, starting on 27 March.
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