An analysis of the literary contributions of South African Indian women captured in the book: Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women, has won the prestigious Hiddingh-Currie Award for the author, UKZN’s Dr Devarakshanam Betty Govinden.
Dr Govinden, a senior research associate at the Faculty of Education at the Unviersity of KwaZulu-Natal, will receive the award – which acknowledges high quality academic and scholarly work – from Unisa Press in February. The award is named after Dr William Hiddingh, one of the first advocates in the Cape Colony, and Sir Donald Currie, an early benefactor of Higher Education in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
