World Book Day 2013: Competition

The SA Booksellers Association is very pleased to announce the winner to the World Book Day competition. Tumi Motswenyane took the R1000 book voucher prize for his inspiring quote:
Inspiration and freedom, poetry and wisdom, laughter and motivation, humility and art. Books are weights for the mind and wheels for education. I also find fun family activities and cultures long lost through word of mouth. Books are the essence of evolution and power to understand ourselves as individuals and a united people.

Short List

The answers to all my questions and the bliss of company in silence – Cathy Rich

Hidden treasures of knowledge and wisdom to be gained from experiences and tales of others. It is the best form of empowerment – Bongi Mbuli

Pleasure that cinema is unable to compete with – Basil Ellman

Space and reason to live in another world. Invite myself in. Choose to stay and leave as I please. Thanks to imaginative minds of writers – Lihle Mhlungu

Coffers filled with gold, a wealth untold – in fact riches no end; solace in grief, sighs of relief, a life with no regrets –
Hettie Vos

Solace, enjoyment, education, escape, recreation, information, expansion of my universe, in short – all I need to feed my brain – Linda Barnard

Inspiration, courage, love, I learn more about other people and cultures. I travel the world, I become a different persona – Asanda Conjwa

Amazing new worlds. Books comfort, enlighten, encourage and help me to discover things about the world, others myself – Marion Thomas

A world of knowledge and pictures painted with words, allowing me to draw the pictures whichever way I see them – Joshua Joubert

Reading is good, reading is fun, reading is for everyone! – Ruan Rousseau

Portraits of wounded beginnings and happy ever-afters, the mysteries of our unknown world, and the queer exaggerated voices of love and hate – Amanda Sithole

Life described in words. Peoples’ experiences of life and descriptions of their experiences. I love books because I can imagine I am the main character and while I am reading the book I can feel the same as the main character. Books enhance my imagination – Mia du Preez

Enlightment, enrichment, fantasy, excitement, nail-biting drama, things to share, things to dare, things to ponder, things to inspire and of course I find me! I love and live to read – Amanda Sickle

My escape. The place where I can forget about school, friends, parents, the world. It is a different place where my imagination is guided and when I put the book down it will run on its own of what could happen with a little more dreaming. It is my escape from reality to a place inside of me – my inner child in an older body – Zulfa Arends