Jonny Steinberg
author
Jonny Steinberg is a South African writer and scholar. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in the mid-1990s and studied at Oxford University's Balliol College, where he earned a doctorate in political theory. After returning to South Africa in 1998, he worked for the national daily newspaper 'Business Day'. Steinberg is known for his non-fiction works exploring crime, policing, and punishment in post-apartheid South Africa. He has held academic positions at Oxford University and Yale University.[1,2,3]
- South African politics
- crime and punishment
- policing
- everyday life in South Africa
Books
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Works by Jonny Steinberg
- 2002 Midlands About the murder of a white South African farmer.
- 2004 The Number A biography of a prison gangster.
- 2008 Thin Blue
- 2023 Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage
Awards
- 2002 Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize
- 2004 Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize
- 2013 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize