Jonny Steinberg
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Jonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and researcher. In the mid-1990s he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University's Balliol college, from which he graduated with a doctorate in political theory. He returned to South Africa in 1998 and worked for the national daily newspaper Business Day, writing on the constitutional court and the police. He left Business Day to write the book Midlands, which he did while based at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation [1] in Johannesburg.
In 2003, Midlands received South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. Two years later Steinberg repeated this feat when his second book, The Number, received the same award. Midlands also received the National Booksellers' Choice award in 2003. Both books [3] are published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. [4]
Steinberg is currently researching and writing a book that focuses on Aids in the villages surrounding Lusikisiki, a small service centre in a remote, deeply rural part of South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
[edit] References
- Steinberg, Jonny, Midlands. Johanesburg : Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2002. xii, 259 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 1-86842-124-4
- Steinberg, Jonny, The Number: One man's search for identity in the Cape underworld and prison gangs. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2004. 427 pages. ISBN 1-86842-205-4.
- Jonny Steinberg online: [5]
