Pamela Jooste

Pamela Jooste was born in Cape Town, where she still lives. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: Frieda and Min, Like Water in Wild Places, People Like Ourselves and Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter, her first novel, which won the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for the African Region; the Samlam Literary Award, and the Book Data South African Booksellers' Choice Award. Her new novel, Star of the Morning, is being published as a Doubleday hardcover in February 2007.

Books by Pamela Jooste

Star Of The Morning

Pamela Jooste

Haunting literary novel about two sisters from South Africa's Cape Coloured community, orphaned and growing up in Cape Town during apartheid, by the award-winning author of Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter

Frieda And Min

Pamela Jooste

In apartheid South Africa, a poor Jewish girl and a 'white kaffir' form a lifetime friendship.

Dance With A Poor Man's Daughter

Pamela Jooste

The funny, sad, exotic, colourful world of the Cape Coloureds as told through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl.