- Natasha Mostert
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Natasha Mostert Born Johannesburg Occupation Novelist Nationality South African Period 2000s Subjects Contemporary fantasy
natashamostert.comNatasha Mostert is a South African author and writer presently living in London.
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Personal
Born in Johannesburg South Africa, Mostert grew up in both Johannesburg and Pretoria.[1][2] She now lives in the United Kingdom, in Chelsea, west London although she still owns a house in Stellenbosch in her native South Africa.[1] Mostert trains as a kickboxer and is raising money for CPAU, an Afghan charity that teaches women how to box and feel empowered in their lives.[3]
Education and career
Mostert was educated in South Africa, and then Columbia University, New York.
As a political op-ed writer, she has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The Times.
She also worked as a teacher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and at the WNET television station in New York City before taking up writing.[1]
She runs two online games on her website: The Keeper game, which is in the form of a personality quiz and which is used to support her book, Keeper of Light and Dust and The Season of the Witch Memory Game, which ties in to her award-winning novel of the same name.[citation needed]
Writing
To date, she has published five novels. She specialises in contemporary fantasy psychological thrillers with paranormal and mystic themes. Her first novel, The Midnight Side, both a murder mystery and ghost story, was released in 2000. It was followed by The Other Side of Silence (2001), a thriller about music and computer gaming, and Windwalker (2005), a Gothic love story about murder, redemption and reincarnation.[2] Her fourth book, Season of the Witch (2007) deals with remote viewing, memory palaces and witchcraft.[1] Season of the Witch won the Book to Talk About: World Book Day Award 2009 with the £5,000 prize being donated to CPAU, an Afghan charity.[4] Her latest novel is Keeper of Light and Dust (published as The Keeper in the UK) and deals with chi, mysticism, martial arts and quantum physics.
Bibliography
- The Midnight Side (2000)
- The Other Side of Silence (2001)
- Windwalker (2004)
- Season of the Witch (2007)
- Keeper of Light and Dust (2009)
References
- ^ a b c d "Official Biography". Natasha Mostert's official website. http://www.natashamostert.com/about/bio/.
- ^ a b Crowe, Dan; Oltermann, Philip, eds (2007). How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors. Rizzoli. p. 183.
- ^ Cooke, Kristina (6 May 2009). "Natasha Mostert offers pinch of paranormal". Reuters. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5455C020090506?sp=true. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
- ^ Davis, Anna (6 March 2009). "Chelsea author wins award to talk about". London Evening Standard. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23658491-chelsea-author-wins-award-to-talk-about.do. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
External links
- Official website
- Profile on MySpace
- Natasha Mostert at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:- Living people
- South African novelists
- South African women writers
- Thriller writers
- South African writer stubs
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