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)
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)
