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Pamela Jooste's first novel, Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter [Doubleday] was awarded the Commonwealth Prize Best First Book Award for the Africa Region 1998, The Sanlam Literary Award and the inaugural Book Data South African Booksellers' Choice Award. The book went on to become a critically acclaimed theatrical production.
She has written four novels to date, and the latest People Like Ourselves was published simultaneously in the UK and South Africa in March 2003. It was numbered in the Top Twenty Bestsellers for 2003, awarded by Exclusive Books. It was the only South Africa novel, written in English, to gain a place on this list.

Aside from her novels Pamela Jooste has also written award-winning short stories, radio plays, serials and film scripts and her work is included in the Penguin Book of Contemporary South African writing. She lives in Cape Town and is married to an attorney.

Opgedateer/Updated: 2006-09-01
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