The foremost literary award ceremony in Botswana, the Bessie Head Literature Awards, has announced its winners for 2009, with women leading the pack in all categories.
Cheryl Ntumy, a student at the University of Botswana in Gabarone, won the best novel award for her manuscript Crossing. In the short story category, Gothataone Moeng won for "Putting on Faces," and in poetry the winner was Luda Sekga for "He Was My Oppressor."
The awards, sponsored by Pentagon Publishers, honor the legacy of Bessie Amelia Head, a South African author who sought refuge in Serowe, Botswana, in 1964 and wrote many autobiographical novels set there. She is considered Botswana's most important literary figure.
The ceremony will be held in Gabarone on July 19.
07 July 2009
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