Craig Higginson

Craig Higginson is a playwright and novelist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has won numerous national and international literary awards, including the Sony Gold Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First, the UJ Main Award for Literature (twice), the HSS Award for Fiction and Naledi Awards for Best New Play. His plays have been performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre in London, the Trafalgar Studios on London’s West End, the Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival and several other theatres around the world. They have been published by Methuen, Oberon Books and Wits Press. Craig’s fiction has been published internationally in England and the United States (with Catalyst Press, St Martin’s Press and Audible UK) and translated into French, Arabic and Turkish. Craig has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Wits University. His novel The Dream House was the IEB Matric set work in South Africa from 2019-2021. His most recent novel, The Ghost of Sam Webster, recently won the Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Fiction and will be published in the United States under the title Shadow Country in 2026. Craig was a recent recipient of the Hawthornden Residency in Scotland.