Bessie Head Heritage Trust announces winners

Tshetsana Senau of Palapye snatched the first prize in the novel category for her manuscript Travelling to the Sun: The Diary of Ruth. The 20-year-old Senau, who is a BSc. student at the University of Botswana (UB) told Mmegi in an interview that she is still in shock about her win. "It has always been my dream to get published at a young age and I am so happy that I am just about to accomplish that," the ecstatic young student said. Senau's Travelling To The Sun: The Diary of Ruth is about a young, overweight girl who struggles to fit in at school as her slimmer peers reject her.

While Ruth tries to find acceptance in different schools, she is also aspiring to become an astronaut, a dream that seems unachievable given her weight problem.