Books By Rayda Jacobs - Author

Rayda Jacobs is an award-winning author and filmmaker. She was born in Diep River, Cape Town in 1947 before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1968.

She published her first collection of short stories, The Middle Children, in 1994. Jacobs went on to receive the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English fiction for her debut novel, Eyes of the Sky (1997) and the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for her 2003 novel, Confessions of a Gambler. She later co-adapted the latter into a feature film and has produced and directed numerous documentaries for television.

She is currently the author of ten novels and multiple short story collections.