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Allister Sparks Allister Sparks is a fifth-generation South African, born and educated in the Eastern Cape Province. He was editor of the Rand Daily Mail from 1977 to 1981 and South African correspondent for The Washington Post, The Observer and Holland's leading newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, from 1981 to 1992. He was named International Editor of the Year in 1979, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of racial unrest in South Africa during 1985 and won Britain's David Blundy Award for foreign reporting in 1985. In 1992 Sparks founded the Institute for Advanced Journalism, in association with the University of the Witwatersrand, to upgrade the standard of journalism in South Africa. His first book The Mind of South Africa won South Africa's 1990 Sanlam Literary Award and was followed by Tomorrow is Another Country, which formed the basis of a three-part television series on South Africa's political transition broadcast by BBC2 and the Discovery Channel. In 2003 he completed his trilogy Beyond the Miracle, which documents what has happened in South Africa since it underwent one of the world's few relatively bloodless revolutions a decade ago. He lives in Johannesburg with his wife Jenny Gandar. Extras Reviews, News & Interviews: