SA journo wins international awards

The award winners from across the globe were announced in early November and will feature in the December 2008 edition of Writer's Digest. The magazine was founded in 1920 and has a current circulation of 140 000 readers worldwide.

Jacobson has won two previous Writer's Digest International Prize Awards, is a Media24 Excellence Award winner and a multiple Mondi Shanduka Awards finalist.

She specialises mainly in creative non-fiction feature writing and has contributed to almost every English magazine and newspaper in South Africa, often achieving cover and front page exposure. Jacobson has also contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald and Marie Clare New York.