IBBY
SA, the South African national section of the International Board on Books
for Young People (IBBY), an international body with 74 national sections around
the world, selected the following books to be presented at the IBBY World Congress in Auckland, New
Zealand, in 2016 as having made a special
contribution to recent South African literature for children and young people:
Author: Afrikaans
Fanie Viljoen: Uit
(LAPA Uitgewers, Pretoria)
– for making it easy for all teenagers to experience and emphathise with a
young man’s growing realisation of his sexual orientation
Author: English
Charmaine Kendal: Miscast (Junkets
Publisher, Cape Town)
– for its sensitive exploration of the inner journey of a trans
boy; probably the first South African teen novel about transgender
Translator: into Afrikaans
Kobus Geldenhuys: Hoe
om jou draak te tem (Protea Boekhuis, Stellenbosch) translated from Cressida
Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon –
for capturing the spirit and sense of the fantastical in his translation
Translator: into isiXhosa
Sindiwe Magona: Umculo neentsomi zase-Afrika (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg)
translated from Gcina Mhlophe’s
Stories of Africa – for transmitting the magic of the original
folktales so faithfully
Translator: into seSotho
Selloane Khosi: Baile le
Moketa (Jacana Media, Johannesburg), translated from Gerard Sekoto’s Shorty and Billy Boy– for
a clear and lively version of the 1973 story of Sekoto’s, only recently
published for the first time
Illustrator:
Dale Blankenaar: Olinosters op die dak /
Rhinocephants on the roof by Marita van
der Vyver (NB Publishers, Cape Town) – for his rendering of
the eerily atmospheric world of the writing
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