S.A. Partridge Explained

Sally Partridge
Birth Date:17 August 1982
Birth Place:Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality:South African
Occupation:Novelist
Genre:Young adult fiction

Sally Partridge (born 17 August 1982 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an author of young adult fiction novels and short stories. She currently lives in Cape Town. For her contribution to South African literature, Partridge was named one of Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans,[1] a distinction awarded annually to notable South Africans under the age of 35.

Books

Partridge is the author of Goblet Club,[2] a young-adult fiction novel set in the South African Platteland, published in South Africa by Human and Rousseau Publishers in 2007. The novel won the SABC/You magazine I am a writer Competition in 2007, as well as the MER Prize for Best Youth Novel at the Mnet Via Afrika Awards in 2008.[3]

Her second novel, Fuse,[4] deals with the sensitive subjects of school killings, bullying and runaways, and is set on the streets of Cape Town and Pretoria. The novel was shortlisted for the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for Youth Fiction awarded by the SA English Academy.[5]

Partridge’s third novel, Dark Poppy’s Demise,[6] tells the story of sixteen-year-old Jenna Brooks who falls prey to an Internet predator on Facebook. The novel was awarded the MER Prize for Best Youth Novel, at the Media24 Literary Awards (previously the Via Afrika Awards).[7]

Her fourth novel, Sharp Edges,[8] was published in August, 2013. In the same year, Partridge was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.[9]

Her short story, "The Expedition", was published in the Home Away anthology.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mail & Guardian 200 young South Africans . ysa2011.mg.co.za . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110614210714/http://ysa2011.mg.co.za/category.php?youngid=4&categoryid=1 . 2011-06-14.
  2. Web site: NB Publishers | Book Details | the Goblet Club . 2016-01-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928171007/http://www.nb.co.za/Books/2668 . 2011-09-28 .
  3. Web site: SA Partridge Wins the MER Youth Prize .
  4. Web site: NB Publishers | Home.
  5. Web site: English Academy Shortlists: Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for Youth Literature and Thomas Pringle Award for Short Stories .
  6. Web site: NB Publishers | Home.
  7. Web site: Winners of the 2012 Jan Rabie Rapport Prize and Media24 Books Literary Awards.
  8. Web site: NB Publishers | Home.
  9. Web site: Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2013 Shortlist Commonwealth Writers . www.commonwealthwriters.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130613034938/http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/cssp-shortlist-2013 . 2013-06-13.
  10. Web site: Home Away book page . 4 August 2011 . 10 September 2012 . https://archive.today/20120910163607/http://www.randomstruik.co.za/title-page.php?titleID=3224&imprintID=4 . dead .