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Mike Nicol

マイク・ニコル

Maiku Nikoru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1951-01-01 （Cape Town）
Nationality
South Africa
Languages
English
Residence History
Cape Town → Johannesburg

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist
Active Years
1978-2024
Affiliations
Leadership magazine
Influenced
Deon Meyer

Awards

Ingrid Jonker Prize
1979
Work: Among the Souvenirs
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Among the Souvenirs

1978 Poetry

Payback

2008 Thriller novel

Black Heart

2011 Thriller novel

Bibliography

  • Among the Souvenirs
  • This Sad Place
  • The Powers That Be
  • This Day and Age
  • Horseman
  • The Ibis Tapestry
  • Payback
  • Killer Country
  • Black Heart
  • Out to Score
  • Of Cops & Robbers
  • Power Play
  • Agents of the State
  • The Rabbit Hole
  • Hammerman: A Walking Shadow
  • Bra Henry
  • A Good-Looking Corpse
  • A Waiting Country. A South African Witness
  • The Invisible Line. The Life and Photography of Ken Oosterbroek
  • Sea-Mountain, Fire City. Living in Cape Town at the Turn of the 20th Century
  • The Firm: a Biography of Webber Wentzel Bowens
  • Mandela. The Authorised Portrait
  • John Lennon – Imagine
  • Monkey Business. The Murder of Anni Dewani – the facts, the fiction, the spin
  • Mandela. Celebrating the Legacy
  • Africana Animals
  • What Daddy Loves

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Major author of South African thrillers

Legacy

One of the major authors of the South African thriller genre, alongside Deon Meyer and Roger Smith.

Trivia

  • One of the major figures in South African thrillers along with Deon Meyer and Roger Smith.