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Mark Winkler is a South African writer. He is the author of two novels, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything (2013) and Wasted (2015). His third novel, The Safest Place You Know, will be published in September 2016.

Life Winkler is a South African writer, born in Johannesburg in 1966. He grew up in what is now Mpumalanga and later attended high school at St Alban’s College, Pretoria. He graduated from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1990.

Winkler is currently an internationally-awarded creative director at a leading Cape Town advertising agency.

His second novel, the dark and superbly-crafted Wasted, was longlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, South Africa’s premier literary award.

Wasted is presently being tranlated into French, and will be published by Paris-based Éditions Métailié in 2017.

Winkler has been commissioned by Hollywood production company, River’s Edge Films, to write a screenplay based on certain characters and incidents in Wasted.

His short story, “When I Came Home”, was shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Writer’s prize, and is one of 26 stories to be selected from approximately 4,000 worldwide submissions.

His short story, “Ink”, was awarded third prize in the 2016 Short Story Day Africa competition, and appeard in the anthology Water.

Works • An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything, Kwela Books, 2013 • Wasted, Kwela Books, 2015, • The Safest Place You Know, Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House (due for publication in September 2016)

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