Abstract
Beverley Naidoo joined the resistance to apartheid as a student in South Africa, leading to detention without trial and exile to Britain in 1965. She has worked as a teacher, education adviser and writer and holds a PhD (Southampton) for research into British readers’ responses to literature and racism. Since Journey to Jo’burg, she has written novels, short stories, poetry and plays. Her many awards include the Carnegie Medal for The Other Side of Truth, the Children’s Africana Honor Book Award for Burn My Heart, and honorary doctorates. Beverley and illustrator Piet Grobler, South African nominees for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008, recently created an Aesop’s Fables set in South Africa. See www.beverleynaidoo.com Bving he Dark in W rting or Yung Pople
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