Leonie Joubert

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Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer with a special interest in climate change, biodiversity, natural history, agriculture, energy issues and wine.

Her first book, Scorched : South Africa's changing climate, (Wits University Press, 2006) blends the hard facts of climate change "with humour, history, vivid descriptions of people" and delivers it with "an amazing personal sense of wonder" (Brenda Martin, Goedgedacht Forum).

Awards
In May 2007 Leonie's first book, Scorched : South Africa's changing climate, was awarded an Honorary Mention by the judging panel of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Literary Awards.
"The judges have chosen to cite Scorched for an Honorary Award for breaking into the new territory of science journalism, and its skill in popularising this often inaccessible field."
Sunday Times Literary Awards
Their interview with the author

Further research
Leonie has just been awarded the Ruth First Fellowship by the University of the Witwatersrand.


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