M-Net Literary Awards shortlists

       The M-Net Literary Awards -- "the benchmark honour for South Africa's most talented writers", they say -- have apparently announced their shortlists. Typically, the press release isn't at the official site yet, last I checked, but they apparently did manage to send it to the BooksLive weblog, where Lindsay reports Shortlists Announced for 2012 M-Net Literary Awards -- and prints the entire press release. (Man, do I look forward to the day when publicists who send out press releases figure out that the first place those should be released at is at the site of the folks releasing the press release ... but I've been holding my breath on this for over a decade, so I don't expect that to happen any time soon.)
       With English, Afrikaans, and African language categories, the M-Net does cover a nice spread of South African fiction; amazingly, one o fthe titles is actually under review at the complete review: 7 Dae by Deon Meyer.