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<p>Carnegie winner Beverley Naidoo grew up in South Africa under apartheid. She says: ‘As a white child I didn’t question the terrible injustices until I was a student. I decided then that unless I joined the resistance, I was part of the problem.’ After leaving the University of Witwatersrand, she was detained without trial and later went into exile in Britain where she studied at the University of York, worked as a teacher, education adviser and writer. She married another South Africa exile and, while bringing up a family, received her Ph.D from the University of Southampton for research into white teenagers’ responses to literature and racism. She has received a number of honorary doctorates for her fiction for young people.</p><p>Her first children’s book, Journey to Jo’burg, was banned in South Africa until 1991 but it was an eye-opener for thousands of readers worldwide. Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, a short story collection Out of Bounds and a stage play The Playground all explore challenges for young people in her birth country. She has won many awards for her writing, including the 2000 Carnegie Medal for The Other Side of Truth about two refugee children smuggled to London who also feature in Web of Lies. Her novel Burn My Heart (Children’s Africana Book Award) is a story of friendship, loyalty and betrayal set in Britain’s colonial past in Kenya. It has toured in the UK as a stage-play. Her work has been widely translated. Her writing for younger children includes a poetry alphabet S is for South Africa with photographs by Prodeepta Das (Children’s Africana Honor Book); Baba’s Gift written with her daughter Maya, illustrated by Karin Littlewood; and an African retelling of Aesop’s Fables, illustrated by Piet Grobler (Parent’s Choice Silver Award, USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2012). Piet Grobler also illustrated Who is King? (Children’s Africana Book Award 2016). Beverley’s latest book, with independent publisher Tiny Owl, is Cinderella of the Nile illustrated by Marjan Vafaeian who lives and works in Iran. Her writing for adults includes a biography Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Aggett about a young medical doctor, her cousin’s son, whose unpaid work for a black trade union attracted the attention of the apartheid police and who died in their hands. See also www.beverleynaidoo.com</p>

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John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
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