Mail & Guardian writers, photographers and cartoonists produced prolifically t his year – and won a number of awards
You Have Been Warned (Viking), written by Mail & Guardian co-founder Irwin Man oim, covers the newspaper’s first turbulent decade.
l Zapiro, aka Jonathan Shapiro, published Zapiro – The Madiba Years (David Phi lip), a collection of cartoons from the Sowetan and Mail & Guardian from the p eriod 1994 to 1996. The book was launched at exhibitions in Johannesburg and C ape Town.
Two PCReview books on computers were published by Zebra, a Struik imprint:
l Buying the Right Computer by Irwin Manoim, editor of the eM&G, takes technop hobic South Africans gently and wittily through the electronic jungle;
l and The Lowdown on Windows 95 by Mish Middlemann, PCReview’s Dr Byte, shows you how to use this controversial programe.
l These Things Happen (Ad Donker), a collection of short stories by M&G litera ry editor Shaun de Waal, reached the bookstores in late November. De Waal has won several prizes for his fiction and his criticism.
l Acollection of Mark Gevisser’s M&Gprofiles of prominent South Africans appea red in book form as Portraits of Power (David Philip).
l Arthur Goldstuck produced three books about the Internet this year, all publ ished by Zebra. The Art of Business on the Internet explains how to do busines s via the network. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet is an updated versio n of last year’s big seller. And Money Talks But Mine Just Said Goodbye, writt en with William Ramwell, is a collection of Internet graffiti.
l Somewhere Over the Rainbow Nation (Penguin) is this year’s Christmas book fr om the Madam & Eve team (Rico, Harry Dugmore and Stephen Francis), who have al so produced a calendar.
l Chief photographer Ruth Motau participated in two exhibitions this year. Her photographs were on display at Colours, an exhibition of South African art in
Germany; and Under the Tropic, which opened in Cape Town and is now touring t
he country.
l M&G assistant editor Barbara Ludman’s novel for teenagers, Take One: Max (Pu ffin), was shortlisted for the M-Net Book Prize. The book deals with returning exiles.
l Philippa Garson was named Education Journalist of the Year by Sanlam for her coverage of higher education for the M&G.
l Stephen Gray was a winner in the Leserskring/ Leisure Books National Book Jo urnalist of the Year competition for his reviews published in the M&G and its literary supplement, Review of Books.
l Writer Eddie Koch and chief sub-editor Fiona Macleod were finalists in the W WF/Green Trust competition for Open Africa, a monthly M&G supplement.
l And the Mail & Guardian collected still another prize: this one the Honor Aw ard for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri.