Jonny has twice been the recipient of South Africa’s premier non-fiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, and was an inaugural winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Literature awarded by Yale University. He is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy, including MIDLANDS, about the murder of a white farmer, THE NUMBER, a biography of a prison gangster, and THREE-LETTER PLAGUE, a young man’s journey through the AIDS pandemic.