Natasha Mostert

Natasha Mostert is a South African author and screenwriter presently living in London.

Personal Born in Johannesburg South Africa, Mostert grew up in both Johannesburg and Pretoria. She now lives in the United Kingdom, in Chelsea, west London although she still owns a house in Stellenbosch in her native South Africa.

Education and career Mostert was educated in South Africa, and then Columbia University, New York.

As a political op-ed writer, she has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The Times.

She also worked as a teacher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and at the WNET television station in New York City before taking up writing. Her fifth novel is Keeper of Light and Dust (published as The Keeper in the UK) and deals with chi, mysticism, martial arts and quantum physics. She returned to the subject of memory and identity in her latest novel, Dark Prayer. Kirkus Reviews describes it as a "brainy, fast-moving thriller" in which Mostert “brings together fascinating strands of biology, psychology and mysticism.”

In recent years, Mostert has branched out into screenwriting.

Awards Season of the Witch, winner, Book to Talk About: World Book Day Award 2009