Sean O'Toole

Sean O’Toole is a journalist, critic and editor based in Cape Town. He is a regular contributor to the Mail & Guardian newspaper and writes a bi-monthly art column for frieze magazine. He is co-editor of CityScapes, a bi-annual magazine on cities and critical urbanism produced in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities, and a contributing editor to Contemporary &, an online magazine dedicated to contemporary African art. He is a past editor of the print magazine Art South Africa (2004-10) and online journal www.artthrob.co.za (2002-04). In 2006 he published The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories (Double Storey, Cape Town), which included a short fiction awarded the 2006 HSBC/SA PEN Literary Award.

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