The shortlist for the Ingrid Jonker Prize 2026 has been announced and we are thrilled that Shari Daya’s Land | Lines and Lucienne Argent’s Self-Portrait of a Guava have been nominated. Congratulations to the two of them and all other shortlisted poets!
The shortlist for 2026:
Lucienne Argent, Self-Portrait of a Guava (Karavan Press)
Shari Daya, Land | Lines (Karavan Press)
Zeenit Saban-Jacobs, Inside an Eyeball (Botsotso Publishing)
Siphokazi Jonas, Weeping Becomes a River (Penguin)
Frank Meintjies, A Place to Night In (Botsotso Publishing)
Sarah Uheida, Not This Tender (Dryad Press)
karavanpress.com 
Congratulations to both poets for this great achievement. I have only read Shari’s collection so far, and it is excellent.
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