Steven Boykey Sidley

Award-winning and multi-shortlisted novelist STEVEN BOYKEY SIDLEY has

meandered through careers as an animator, chief technology officer for a

Fortune 500 company, jazz musician, software developer, video game

designer, private equity investor and high technology entrepreneur. He has written 4 novels, with a 5th to be published August 2019. Sidley's writing has been variously compared by reviewers to Philip Roth (Elle), Martin Amis (Rene Montagne, NPR) and John Power (Booklist)

2013 - Winner of UJ Debut Fiction Award for Entanglement (Picador SA)

2013 - Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement

2013 - Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement

2014 - Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out

2015 - Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo

October 2015 - Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand

Livre du Mois, France's most prestigious national literary book club

2017 - Free Association published by Picador SA and sold to Belfond, France

2018 - Invited to perform Telling Stories, a one-man show, at William

Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea

2019 - Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US

2019 - Launch of Leaving Word in SA (August)