Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg ( born March 22, 1970) is a South African journalist, author and editor.

Steinberg studied at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg and then went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. There he received his doctorate in political philosophy. In 1998 he returned to South Africa and worked for the daily newspaper Business Day.

He left the newspaper to write his first book Midlands, dealing with racial conflict in South Africa after the end of apartheid. He won the Alan Paton Award and thus repeated this success two years later with his second book The Number. In addition to his work as an author, he published two books on contemporary South Africa.

Works

As the author

  • Midlands. Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1-86842-124-4.
  • The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison gangs. Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-86842-205-4.
  • Notes From A Fractured Country. Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-1-86842-293-7.
  • Sizwe 's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic. Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4165-5269-7.

As editor

  • From Comrades to Citizens: The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy ( International Political Economy Series). Routledge, 2000. ( With Glenn Adler )
  • Crime Wave: The South African Underworld and its Foes. Witwatersrand University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-86814-368-9.

Awards

  • 2003: Alan Paton Award for Midlands
  • 2003: National Booksellers ' Choice Award for Midlands
  • 2005: Alan Paton Award for The Number
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