- Beverley Naidoo
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 theCarnegie Medal in 2000 for "The Other Side of Truth" and won theJosette Frank Award twice - in 1986 for "Journey to Jo'burg" and in 1997 for "No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa".Novels [http://www.beverleynaidoo.com/bookshop.html]
*"Journey to Jo'burg"
*"Chain of Fire"
*"No Turning Back"
*"The Other Side of Truth"
*"Out of Bounds"
*"Web of Lies"
*"Burn My Heart"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. [http://www.http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/B/bookbox/authors/naidoo/index1.htm] 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 . [http://www.beverleynaidoo.com/babasgift.html]External links
* [http://www.beverleynaidoo.com/burn.html Beverley Naidoo's novel Burn My Heart (Puffin, 2007)has an imagined point of reference in the boyhood in Kenya of a second cousin, Neil Aggett
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