Justin James Cartwright MBE FRSL (20 May 1943 – 3 December 2018)[1] was a British novelist, originally from South Africa.

Cartwright was born in Cape Town, South Africa,[2] but grew up in Johannesburg[3] where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation presenter Ramona Koval described Cartwright's novels as being "based in contemporary settings but he’s able to suffuse them with the big questions that haunt us".

In Masai Dreaming, Curtiz is in Africa researching a film about Claudia Cohn-Casson, and his relationship with Victoria is having "complications."

Look at It This Way was made into a three-part, 180-minutes drama by the BBC in 1992, starring Kristin Scott Thomas; Cartwright wrote the screenplay.