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Pamela Jooste


Born
Cape Town, South Africa

Pamela Jooste 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. She worked for Howard Timmins publishers, and BP Southern Africa. She is married and lives in Cape Town. ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 819 ratings · 79 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Dance with a Poor Man's Dau...
3.91 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions
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Frieda and Min
3.92 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Star of the Morning
3.40 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Like Water in Wild Places
3.25 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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People Like Ourselves
3.20 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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180°: New Fiction by South ...
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