Jann Turner

Biography


Jann Turner is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. She won an Emmy for her work on the National Geographic film “Wolves of the Air” and the Foreign Correspondents Award for Journalism for her documentary on the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is also the author of The Southern Cross (Orion, 2003), Home Is Where You Find It (2001), and Heartland (1997). She lives in Johannesburg, where she is currently at work on a new novel.

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ESSAYS / Winter 2006

Nightgirls

By Jann Turner

t is so hot here the highway melts everyday. Vehicles flattening it to oily, gleaming blacktop. I am sitting at a plastic table on a hot concrete step at the Pensao Montes Namuli, watching the road, drinking a dark, malty domestic beer...