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About Steven Boykey Sidley

Steven Boykey Sidley is an award-winning and multi-shortlisted author and playwright.

He is the author of Entanglement, Stepping Out, Imperfect Solo, Free Association, Leaving Word and the play Shape (co-written with his wife Kate Sidley), and Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and The End of Banks (co-written with Simon Dingle). He is married with two children.

Biography

2022

Global launch of Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and The End of Banks (Icon Books, UK)

2019

Launch of Leaving Word in SA (Jacana/MF)

2019

Launch of Microphone in France (Belfond)

2019

Launch of Imperfect Solo in the US (Skyhorse)

2018

Selected to perform his one man-show Telling Stories, at The William Kentridge Centre for the Less Good Idea

2017

Free Association published by Picador SA and Belfond, France (titled Microphone)

2015

Imperfect Solo (Belfond translation) selected for Le Grand Livre du Mois France’s most prestigious national literary book club

2015

Longlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Imperfect Solo

2013

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

2014

Shortlisted for UJ Main Fiction Award for Stepping Out

2013

Shortlisted for MNet Literary Award for Entanglement

2013

Shortlisted for Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Entanglement

2013

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