Pamela Jooste

Pamela Jooste (born Cape Town) is a South African novelist. Her first novel, Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and the Sanlam Prize for Fiction.^[1]

She worked for Howard Timmins publishers, and BP Southern Africa.^[2] She is married and lives in Cape Town.

Works

• Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, Doubleday, 1998, ISBN 978-0-385-40911-7
• Frieda and Min, Doubleday, 1999, ISBN 978-0-385-40912-4
• Like Water in Wild Places, Doubleday, 2000, ISBN 978-0-385-60133-7
• People Like Ourselves, Doubleday, 2003, ISBN 978-0-385-60540-3
• Star of the Morning, Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-61090-2