This years jury comprised of: Dr Mongane Wally Serote (Jury Chair) Born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Serote was

drawn to poetry and writing towards the end of his high-school career and went on to obtain a ne arts degree in New York at Columbia University in 1979. As a cadre for Umkhonto we Sizwe he lived in Botswana and London, where he became involved with the Medu Arts Ensemble. He is the recipient of the 1993 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and has also been given the Pablo Neruda Award from the Chilean government in 2004. His novel Rumours, the latest of many publications, is published by Jacana. Phakama Mbonambi Mbonambi is a publishing editor of literary journal called Wordsetc. A quarterly, the title promotes the consumption of South African literature and ne writing from elsewhere on the continent, and seeks to be a platform for emerging writers. Mbonambi, who has worked for many years in various newspapers as a subeditor, manages Flamenco Publishing which is based in Johannesburg.

Dr Pamela Nichols Nichols came to South Africa in 1995 to the Wits English Department. She helped found and is currently the director of Wits Writing Centre (WWC), one of the rst writing centres in the country. Nichols has taught in universities in Lebanon, Jordan and New York and in 1992 completed a doctorate in Comparative Literature guided by the work of Edward Said. Since inception the WWC has produced 17 awardwinning writers and part-organised six literary festivals as well as promoting successful academic writing and promoting writing intensive teaching.

PREVIOUS EU LITERARY AWARD WINNERS Khalils Journey by Ashraf Kagee (2011/2012) Deeper than Colour by James Clelland (2010) Saracen at the Gates by Zinaid Meeran (2009) Till We Can Keep an Animal by Megan Voysey-Braig (2008) Coconut by Kopano Matlwa (2006/2007) Bitches Brew by Fred Khumalo and Ice in the Lungs by Gerald Kraak (2005) The Silent Minaret by Ishtiyaq Shukri (2004)