Beverley Naidoo

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Beverley Naidoo is a popular children's author who has written a number of award-winning books about life in South Africa, where she spent her childhood. She won the Carnegie Medal in 2000 for The Other Side of Truth and won the Josette Frank Award twice - in 1986 for Journey to Jo'burg and in 1997 for No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa.

Novels[1]

  • Journey to Jo'burg
  • Chain of Fire
  • No Turning Back
  • The Other Side of Truth
  • Out of Bounds
  • Web of Lies
  • Burn My Heart

[edit] Biography

Beverley Naidoo was born in South Africa on 21 May 1943 and grew up under apartheid. As a student, she began to question the apartheid regime and was later arrested for her actions as part of the resistance movement in South Africa.[2] In 1965 she came to England and married another South African exile; they have two children. In 2004, Beverley Naidoo wrote a children's picture book: Baba's Gift, with her daughter, Maya Naidoo.[3]