Award-winning books
The following books by UCT staff have been recognised as outstanding.
The following books by UCT staff have been recognised as outstanding.
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| Year | Author | Book | Award | Faculty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr Chantal Stewart | The Veil of Maya | UCT Book Award | Health Sciences |
| 2024 | Professor Wahbie Long | Nation on the Couch: Inside South Africa's Mind | Meritorious Book Prize | Humanities |
| 2023 | Dr Mignonne Breier | Bloody Sunday: The Nun, The Defiance Campaign and South Africa's Secret Massacre | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2023 | Associate Professor Barbara Boswell | And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism | Meritorious Book Prize | Humanities |
| 2022 | Professor Dan Stein | Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience | UCT Book Award | Health Sciences |
| 2021 | Professor Philippe-Joseph Salazar | Words are Weapons: Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2020 | Professor Herman Wasserman | Media, Geopolitics and Power: A view from the Global South | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2020 | Kharnita Mohamed | Called to Song | Meritorious Book Prize | Humanities |
| 2019 | Anna Tietze | A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery: Reflections on Art and National Identity | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2019 | Professor Alphose Zingoni | Shell Structures in Civil and Mechanical Engineering: Theory and Analysis | UCT Book Award | Engineering & the Built Environment |
| 2018 | Professor David Wardle | Suetonius: Life of Augustus | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2017 | Professor David Chidester | Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion | UCT Book Award | Religious Studies |
| 2016 | Dr Litheko Modisane | South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centred Films | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2016 | Professor Jenni Case | Researching Student Learning in Higher Education: A social realist approach | Meritorious Book Award | EBE |
| 2015 | Associate Professor Sa'diyya Shaikh | Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2015 | Professor Hanri Mostert | Mineral Law: Principles and Policy in Perspective | Meritorious Book Award | Law |
| 2015 | Associate Professor Xolela Mangcu | Biko: A Biography | Meritorious Book Award | Humanities |
| 2014 | Professor Nicoli Nattrass | The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back | UCT Book Award | Economics |
| 2014 | Professor Alan Morris | Missing & Murdered | Meritorious Publication Award | Health Sciences |
| 2014 | Dr Shane Godfrey | Collective Bargaining in South Africa | Meritorious Publication Award | Law |
| 2013 | Sonja Loots | Sirkusboere | UCT Book Award | Humanities |
| 2013 | Associate Professor Carrol Clarkson | JM Coetzee: Countervoices | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2013 | Professor Fiona C Ross | Raw Life, New Hope | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2011 | Associate Professor Imraan Coovadia | High Low In-between | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2011 | Professor JC (Kay) de Villiers | Healers, Helpers and Hospitals: A history of military medicine in the Anglo-Boer War | UCT Book Award | Health Sciences |
| 2011 | Lauren Beukes | Zoo City | Arthur C Clarke Award | Alumni/Humanities |
| 2011 | Dr Jeremy Wanderer | Robert Brandom | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2010 | Emeritus Professor Kit Vaughan | Imagining the Elephant: a Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack | UCT Book Award for 2010 | Health Sciences |
| 2010 | Associate Professor Imraan Coovadia | High Low In-between | Sunday Times Literary Award, University of Johannesburg Prize | Humanities |
| 2009 | Professor Jane Bennett | Porcupine | Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book and Best First Book 2009 | Humanities |
| 2009 | Professor Pippa Skotnes | Claim to the Country | Outstanding Academic Title status by Choice magazine | Humanities |
| 2009 | Professor Etienne van Heerden | 30 Nagte in Amsterdam (30 Nights in Amsterdam) | 2009 M-Net Literary Award | Humanities |
| 2008 | Dr Peter Bruyns | Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar | UCT Book Award | Science |
| 2008 | Professor Nicoli Nattrass | The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa | Bill Venter/Altron Literary Award | Commerce |
| 2008 | Dr Cecil Helman | Suburban Shaman: Tales from medicine's frontline | George Abercrobie Award | Health Sciences |
| 2007 | eds: Dr Sean Field, Renate Meyer and Felicity Swanson | Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town | (Recommended book) | Various |
| 2007 | Dr Cecil Helman | Suburban Shaman: Tales from medicine's frontline | Medical Journalists Association Book Award | Health Sciences |
| 2006 | A Chinsamy-Turan | The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bones | Meritorious Publication Award | Science |
| 2006 | S Mann | One Tongue Singing | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2006 | M Watson | Moss | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2006 | Brown, Andrew | Coldsleep Lullaby | Sunday Times Fiction award | Alumni/ Humanities |
| 2006 | Jonathan Kaplan | Contact Wounds | Alan Paton Award | Health Sciences |
| 2006 | Sean O'Toole | The Road to Rephile in The Marquis of Mooikloof | HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award | Alumni/ Humanities |
| 2005 | Vanessa Watson | Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning | Bill Venter/ Altron Literary Award | EBE |
| 2005 | Ruth Watson and Leslie Swartz | Transformation through Occupation | Meritorious Publication Award | Health Sciences |
| 2005 | David Goldenberg | The Curse of Ham | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2005 | Johann Lutjeharms | Dictionary of Oceanology/ Oseanologiewoordeboek | Meritorious Publication Award | Science |
| 2004 | J Beall, O Crankshaw, S Parnell | Uniting a Divided City | Meritorious Publication Award | |
| 2004 | F Ross | Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2004 | Gabeba Baderoon | The Dream in the Next Body | DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry | Alumni |
| 2003 | Ingrid de Kok | Terrestrial Things | Herman Charles Bosman Award for English Literature | |
| 2003 | Anya Subotzky | Visualizing the Invisible: The Role of Images in South African Responses to HIV/AIDS | Golden Key International Honour Society Literary Achievement Award | Humanities |
| 2003 | Elinor Sisulu | Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our Lifetime | Noma Prize | Humanities |
| 2003 | JM Coetzee | Disgrace | Commonwealth Writers Prize | Humanities |
| 2003 | JW de Gruchy | Christianity; Art and Transformation Theological Aesthetics in the struggle for Justice | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2003 | H Bhorat, M Liebbrandt, M Maziya, S van der Berg, I Woolard | Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and inequality in South Africa | Meritorious Publication Award | Commerce |
| 2003 | JM Coetzee | In the Heart of the Country appeared in 1977, Waiting for the Barbarians in 1980, Life and Times of Michael K in 1983, Dusklands in 1985, Foe in 1986, Age of Iron in 1990, The Master of Petersburg in 1994, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life in 1997, and Disgrace in 1999 | Nobel Prize for Literature | Humanities |
| 2003 | Professor Jeremy Seekings | The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983 - 1991 | Bill Venter/Altron Literary Award | Humanities |
| 2003 | Mr Ashley Muller | Measurement of Ordinary Heterotroph Organism Anoxic Yield in Anoxic-Aerobic Activated Sludge Systems | South African Association for the Advancement of Science's prestigious S2A3 Bronze Medal | Science |
| 2002 | Manu Herbstein | Ama: A story of the Atlantic Slave trade | Commonwealth Writers Prize | Alumni/EBE |
| 2002 | Higgins, J | Raymond Williams, Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism | Bill Venter Award | Humanities |
| 2002 | Associate Professor J Seekings | The UDF: A history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa 1983-1991 | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2002 | Dr G Williamson | Richtersveld: The Enchanted Wilderness | Meritorious Publication Award | Science |
| 2002 | Associate Professor Melissa Steyn | Whiteness just isn't what it used to be: White identity in a changing South Africa | Outstanding scholarship award in International and Intercultural Communication, National Communication Association | Humanities |
| 2002 | Professor S Watson | The Other City: Selected Poems | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2002 | Jonathan Kaplan | The Dressing Station | Alan Paton Award | Health Sciences |
| 2001 | Etienne van Heerden | Die Swye van Mario Salviatti | MNET Creative Writing Prize | Humanities |
| 2001 | Milton Shain | Anti-Semitism | Meritorious Publication Award | Humanities |
| 2001 | Dr Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy and Associate Professor Leslie London | An Ambulance of the Wrong Colour | Meritorious Publication Award | Health Sciences |
| 2001 | Professor Peter Linder and Dr Hubert Kurzweil | Orchids of Southern Africa | Meritorious Publication Award | Science |
| 2001 | Dr Ashley Robins | Oscar Wilde's Terminal Illness | Meritorious Publication Award | Health Sciences |
| 2001 | Associate Professor John Hare | Shipping Law and Admiralty Jurisdiction in South Africa | Meritorious Publication Award | Law |
| 2001 | Professor Brian Warner, Dr John Rourke | Flora Herscheliana | Science | |
| 2001 | AP Brink | Donkermaan | Hertzog Prize | Humanities |
| 2001 | Tom Dreyer | Stink Afrikaaners | Eugene Marais Prize | Humanities |
| 2000 | Etienne van Heerden | Die Swye van Mario Salviatti | WA Hofmeyr | Humanities |
| 2000 | V Bickford-Smith | Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, 1875 - 1902 | Bill Venter Award | Humanities |
| 2000 | Alfred Schaffer | Zijn Opkomst in de Voorstad | Jo Peters Poetry Prize | Humanities |
| 2000 | Joan Humbridge | Lykdigte | Eugene Marais Prize | Humanities |
| 2000 | Stephan Watson | The Other City | Eugene Marais Prize | Humanities |
| 1999 | Peter Horn | My Voice is Under Control Now and Other Stories | Alex La Guma/ Bessie Head Short Story Prize | Humanities |
| 1997 | Etienne van Heerden | Kikoejoe | ATKV Prize | Humanities |
| 1997 | Professor Chidester | Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa | American Academy of Religion Award | Humanities |
| 1997 | Mahmood Mamdani | Citizen and Subject: Contemporary African and the Legacy of Late Colonialism | Herskovits Award | Humanities |
| 1997 | Elinor Sisulu | The Day Gogo Went to Vote | African Studies Association Honour Book | Humanities |