A professional wordsmith with 30 years of experience in the publishing industry.

‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel only read a page.’ – St. Augustine

A camera-toting wordsmith with wanderlust, Laurianne Claase supported her globetrotting habit by working in a country hotel in Scotland, on a dive boat in the Red Sea, on ferries in  the Greek islands and in TEFL classrooms in Taiwan before settling on Cape Town as a home base where, for the ensuing 30 years, she has plied her pen-pushing trade in the publishing industry as a freelance writer, editor, proof reader, investigative journalist and author.

Her clients include government departments, NGOs, businesses, advertising agencies, educational, academic and general publishers, as well as individuals. While travel writing is her first love, she has written for South African and international publications on a range of topics including natural history and the environment, arts and culture, business, current affairs and true crime.

An ungovernable curiosity and a passion for unearthing the truth has resulted in several books of investigative reportage, including: Caught Out: Cricket Match-Fixing Investigated (Random House, 2007), which was long-listed for the Alan Paton Award in 2008, and the two-part series Pieces of the Puzzle: Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp (Art Publishers/Sunday Times, 2013/2015).

She continues to expand and expound her horizons, exulting in the multi-cultural, kaleidoscopic world of wonder in which we live.