| Intro | South African writer |
| Is | Writer |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
1 January 1936 |
| Age | 85 years |
Manu Herbstein (born 1936) is the South African author of Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001), which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the first time the award had been given to an electronic book. The companion web site to his novel is at http://www.ama.africatoday.com where the first chapter may be read on-line.