Jonny Steinberg

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

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

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

Works

As an 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 .
• = A Man of Good Hope. Vintage, 2015. ISBN 978-0-80417104-5 =

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

Web links

• official page