{"id":8089,"date":"2020-03-16T11:06:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-hosts-the-ilifu-big-data-hackathon-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:45:56","slug":"prof-brian-willan-wins-best-biography-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/prof-brian-willan-wins-best-biography-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Professor bags biography award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8089\" class=\"elementor elementor-8089\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ec8dbc1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ec8dbc1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-30957904\" data-id=\"30957904\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa80d6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aa80d6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On 12 March 2020, Professor Brian Willan won the award for Best Non-Fiction Biography for his book titled <em>Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932<\/em> at the 5th Annual Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards 2020 ceremony.<\/p><p>The Awards \u2013 hosted by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) was held at the Square in Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg where HSS scholars and academics gathered to honour and celebrate the exceptional contributions to the humanities and social sciences by academics, curators and artists based at participating South African universities.<\/p><p>The Awards aim to recognise and celebrate those intellectual and creative scholars of the HSS community from South African universities and independent artists from participating universities whose contributions often go unnoticed.<\/p><p>Shortlisted amongst seven other outstanding Non-Fiction Books, Prof Willan\u2019s biography exceptionally articulates Plaatje\u2019s remarkable life and the obstacles he had to overcome.<\/p><p>SPU Creative Writing in African Languages Lecturer Sabata-Mpho Mokae states that \u201cIt takes a historian who was invested many years in research to write a biography as detailed as this one. Willan relates Plaatje\u2019s story with such amazing skill that this biography is a pleasure to read. It is as detailed as it is beautifully written in accessible language.\u201d<\/p><p>SPU congratulates Prof Willan on this outstanding achievement!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 March 2020, Professor Brian Willan won the award for Best Non-Fiction Biography for his book titled Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932 at the 5th Annual Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards 2020 ceremony. 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