Beverley Naidoo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Beverley Naidoo

author

Date of Birth: 21-May-1943

Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Profession: writer, author, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Beverley Naidoo

  • Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the U.K.
  • Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she lived until her twenties.
  • She has also written a biography of the trade unionist Neil Aggett.The Other Side of Truth, was published by Puffin in 2000, is a story about political corruption and how that affects the lives of the children of an outspoken writer.
  • For that work she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.Naidoo 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.

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