| | Winner - Best Debut Novel 2007Write Co graduate wins Best Debut Novel 2007
Writers Write graduate and Write Co facilitator and editor, Morné Malan, won Tafelberg’s Great Novel  Competition, in the Debut Novel Category. The judges were Prof. Andre P. Brink, Jakes Gerwel and Louise Viljoen.
Morné Malan was shortlisted for the SA Pen Award for his entry - Jason’s Kiss. Nobel Laureate, JM Coetzee, was the judge. Jason’s Kiss was one of the top stories - published in African Pens (New Africa Books) Morné a novelist, playwright, copywriter and editor, facilitates Skrywers Skryf for The Write Co.
This course is the Afrikaans version of Writers Write, translated by Morné. "I would like Afrikaans publishers to free their minds of the idea that all Afrikaans novels should be literary," says Morné. "I’d also like to help other Afrikaans writers to embrace their passion and to unleash their talent.
"I attended Amanda Patterson’s Writers Write course and it changed my life," he says. " |
