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]
Themes
- South African politics
- crime and punishment
- policing
- everyday life in South Africa
Books
Works by Jonny Steinberg
- Midlands 2002 · book About the murder of a white South African farmer.
- The Number 2004 · book A biography of a prison gangster.
- Thin Blue 2008 · book
- Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage 2023 · book
Awards
- 2002 Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize
- 2004 Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize
- 2013 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize

