Beverley Naidoo

Beverley Naidoo ( born May 21, 1943 in Johannesburg) is a writer.

For her YA The other truth was, inter alia, awarded the 2003 Japanese Sankei Children's Book Award and the Jane Addams Book Award. Was published in 2006 in England and the U.S., the continuation Web of Lies. Naidoo is nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award by the South African branch of the International Board on Books for Young People 2008.

Life

On 21 May 1943, born Beverley Naidoo in Johannesburg ( South Africa). In 1963 she graduated from the University of Witwatersrand. In 1966 she was for eight weeks in solitary confinement because she was an opponent of the apartheid regime and actively participated in the resistance. In 1965 she was expelled from the country. Therefore, they decided to emigrate to England, where she studied the teaching profession, and later taught school. She married a Exilsüdafrikaner and was able to return to South Africa in 1991 because they could not live together in South Africa because " mixed marriages " were forbidden.

Works (selection)

• Travel to Johannesburg, children's book Verlag, Berlin, 1988
• Naledi: chains of anger, Alibaba's Verlag, Frankfurt, 1992
• The other truth, Klopp -Verlag, Hamburg, 2002
• Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope, Harper Collins Publishers, 2003
• Making It Home: Real -Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee, Puffin Books, 2005
• Web of Lies, Amistad, 2006

Awards (selection)