Nurse motors ahead
Sean Nurse eats, sleeps and breathes motoring journalism. The 23-year-old writer exceeded his own expectations when he raked in a string of top awards at the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists’ Motoring Journalist of the Year Competition, held recently in Sandton. The Farrarmere resident won the Steve Dlamini Award for Excellence in Motoring Journalism, …
Sean Nurse eats, sleeps and breathes motoring journalism.
The 23-year-old writer exceeded his own expectations when he raked in a string of top awards at the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists’ Motoring Journalist of the Year Competition, held recently in Sandton.
The Farrarmere resident won the Steve Dlamini Award for Excellence in Motoring Journalism, the AA Safety Feature of the Year Award, Motorcycling Journalist of the Year and was a runner-up in the Newspaper Journalist of the Year.
Nurse, who currently works at Autodealer, said nothing could have prepared him for the recognition he received.
”I knew that I had worked really hard on my writing and produced decent content, but I seriously was not expecting to be recognised in so many categories,” he said.
”It really was the culmination of a schoolboy dream to be recognised in a profession that I love so dearly.
”Then, to add the proverbial icing to the cake, one of my greatest influences and whom I believe to be South Africa’s best motoring writer, Egmont Sippel, mentioned that he believes that I am destined for great things during his acceptance speech for Motoring Journalist of the Year.
”It was literally the stuff that dreams are made of.”
Nurse has always been a petrol head and wanted to race like F1 driver Ayrton Senna.
He realised this dream would not be realised, but was put on his writing journey by his English teacher, Ron McHarg.
”My English teacher asked me why all of my essays were about cars, even when the topic was Shakespeare,” said Nurse.
”I said that cars were all that I could think about when tackling that dreary Shakespearean play.
”He asked me about my ambitions and I shared my rather unrealistic ambition to race cars with him.
”He said that my writing was quite good and that there was a job out there called a Motoring Journalist, where I could drive cars and write about them.”
The Benoni High School old boy encourages aspiring writers to write as much as possible and try to get their work published where ever they can.
