Beverley naidoo biography of michael

South African author

Beverley NaidooFRSL is a South African author of children's books who lives in the UK.

Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she lived until her twenties.^[1] She has also written a biography of the trade unionist Neil Aggett.^[2]

The Other Side of Truth, published by Puffin in 2000, is a story about Nigerian political refugees in England.

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.^[3]

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.

Another example of the power of the biography Beverley Naidoo, The Death of The narrative moves quickly to Neil following his older brother Michael.

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Beverley Naidoo was born in South Africa but moved to the United Kingdom in As a child Beverley always loved stories but only started writing when her.

A fascinating story told with the novelist's eye for detail and in immaculate prose.

Born into a white, middle-class family in Johannesburg, South Africa, Beverley Naidoo grew up under the oppressive apartheid regime until the age of twenty-one.

Biography

Beverley Naidoo was born on 21 May 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She grew up under apartheid laws that gave privilege to white children. Black children were sent to separate, inferior schools and their families were told where they could live, work and tr