Mark Winkler

Mark Winkler (born 29 January 1966) is a South African writer of literary fiction living in Cape Town. He is the author of six novels, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything, Wasted (2015), The Safest Place You Know (2016), Theo & Flora (2018), Due South of Copenhagen (2020) and The Errors of Dr Browne, published in August 2022.

Life

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

Works

Novels

His first novel, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything, has been described as “an intensely absorbing and unapologetically apolitical tale”,