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1852:"Russel Brownlee, Jane Taylor win Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose"
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1673:"Rustum Kozain Wins Second Olive Schreiner Prize for Groundwork"
1776:"David Medalie Wins the 2008 Pringle Prize for Short Fiction"
1480:"Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa"
1901:"Obituary: The warmth and laughter of Chris van Wyk"
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