Barry Ronge

Early life Ronge was born in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, and grew up on the West Rand where he attended Florida Park High School. He completed his studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he began a teaching career at St. John's College, followed by a ten-year stint as a lecturer in literature at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Career He later moved on to become a print and electronic journalist, specializing in the arts. In addition to writing movie reviews he was also a food critic in his early career writing under the pseudonym Rebecca Parker. After writing for the Sunday Times for 27 years, he wrote his last column on 23 February 2014. In 2015, the Sunday Times renamed its prize for South African literature to the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.

During the 1990s and 2000s Ronge was a film critic on M-Net where worked on a number of movie review shows most notably Front Row, Revue Plus and Cinemagic with Barry Ronge.

Books Spit 'n Polish, 2006, Penguin Books SA,

Awards Thomas Pringle Award for Reviews, English Academy of South Africa, 2005 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize longlist.