I’m very happy (and rather late) to announce that The First Law of Sadness won the 2018 Nadine Gordimer Award at the 2018 South African Literary Awards. It’s my first award for a book, and it’s very special to me.

Thank you to the Department of Arts and Culture and the wRite Associates for the honour, en veels geluk om Nicole Jaekel Strauss, wie ook het die toekenning gewen, vir haar bundel As in die mond. (And apologies to everyone for my awful Afrikaans.)