Jonny Steinberg's Books
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Sizwe's TestA journalist’s searing account, seen through the eyes of a young villager, of the stigma and cultural impasse at the heart of Africa’s AIDS...Read More
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Redditch Advertiser, November 7, 2009
...to be published in the UK. Three Letter Plague [Fiction, Random House, £8.99] Award-winning South African journalist Jonny Steinberg's story focuses on HIV in the Cape. Following a shop-owner named Sizwe, the book uncovers the firmly held suspicions...
The Bookseller, November 5, 2009
...Publishing) Brian Dillon Tormented Hope (Penguin - Ireland) Andrea Gillies Keeper (Short Books) Allegra Goodman Intuition (Atlantic Books) Jonny Steinberg Three Letter Plague (Random House/Vintage) Abraham Verghese Cutting For Stone Random House/Chatto)...
Times Online, October 8, 2009
...www.wellcomebookprize.org The shortlist Three Letter Plague: A Young Man?s Journey Through a Great Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg Vintage, £8.99 Journalist and ethnographer Jonny Steinberg?s account of his friendship with ?Sizwe Magadla?, a...
Sunday Times South Africa, August 16, 2009
...to books. On the crime issue, authors such as Anthony Altbeker (A Country at War with Itself) and Jonny Steinberg (Thin Blue) have written books examining policing in SA. Both books offer readers an analysis of what is happening on the crime front and...
The Times South Africa, August 15, 2009
...to books. On the crime issue, authors such as Anthony Altbeker (A Country at War with Itself) and Jonny Steinberg (Thin Blue) have written books examining policing in SA. Both books offer readers an analysis of what is happening on the crime front and...
Sunday Times South Africa, August 8, 2009
...not Fate The life & times of Trevor Manuel); Ahmed Kathrada with Tim Couzens (A Simple Freedom), and Jonny Steinberg (Three-Letter Plague). Evocative and fast-paced, this tour de force reads like one of the finest contemporary thrillers except that the...
The Times South Africa, July 17, 2009
...Pippa Green (published by Penguin SA) with TV personality Sandy Ngema giving her view on Three-letter Plague by Jonny Steinberg (published by Jonathan Ball) and Lerato Tshabalala, editor of Sunday Times Lifestyle, talks about In a Different Time by Peter...
South African Government, July 1, 2009
...law abiding citizen. In his book â??The Numberâ?? (a book on the numbers gangs in South African prisons), Jonny Steinberg relates the words of one of his characters in Pollsmoor as follows: â??You go into prison on a charge of common...
Polity.org.za, July 1, 2009
...law abiding citizen. In his book 'The Number' (a book on the numbers gangs in South African prisons), Jonny Steinberg relates the words of one of his characters in Pollsmoor as follows: 'You go into prison on a charge of common assault...when you get...
The Times South Africa, May 22, 2009
...The Burger?s Daughter hasn?t seen herself adopted by a more American friendly dad. Not so for Jonny Steinberg though. His Three Letter Plague has been reduced to its essential elements with a US title that leaves little to the imagination ? Sizwes...
Sunday Tribune Ireland, February 9, 2009
...an election in the offing. Three Letter Plague: A Young Man's Journey Through a Great Epidemic By Jonny Steinberg Vintage £9 400pps THE IRONY here is that South African natives who spent generations wiping out apartheid are now wiping out themselves....
Tonight South Africa, January 22, 2009
...others may seem a tad woo-woo to the cynical. Yet most face up to the issues, as with Jonny Steinberg on Crime, writing that while white SA's paranoic response is 'spectacularly wrong', yet 'It is by no means inconceivable that a populist South African...
The Independent, January 18, 2009
...humanised the pandemic by narrating as diverse a set of encounters with HIV/Aids as she could find. Now Jonny Steinberg, a South African journalist, has come up with a compelling account of the impact (and non-impact) of anti-retroviral distribution...
BOOK Southern Africa, October 15, 2009
...Jonathan Ball welcomes the announcement that Jonny Steinberg’s Three-Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic has been shortlisted for the inaugural Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The Trust aims to award £25,000...
Book Case at The Times, May 21, 2009
...The Burger’s Daughter hasn’t seen herself adopted by a more American friendly dad. Not so for Jonny Steinberg though. His Three Letter Plague has been reduced to its essential elements with a US title that leaves little to the imagination –...
BOOK Southern Africa, April 29, 2009
...experience that South Africans of a certain group share. We first saw Glenhazel’s militarized GAP unit in Jonny Steinberg’s Thin Blue - but only its schemata, its technical outline. Here, in this excerpt from Bloom’s book, Ways of Staying , is a...
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...Dust by Julia Martin (Kwela Books) On the Contrary by Tony Leon (Jonathan Ball Publishers) Three-Letter Plague by Jonny Steinberg (Jonathan Ball Publishers) The Recht Malan Prize was first awarded in 1978 and acknowledges excellence in the field of...
