Lesley Beake
Lesley Beake (born 1949) is a Scottish-born South African children's author.
Life
Lesley Beake was born and went to school in Edinburgh, Scotland.[1] She lives in South Africa, where she has worked as a teacher. Her children's novels, "which address the plight of children of certain tribes in southern Africa, attract an adult audience".[2]
Works
- Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure: the journal of Peter David Hadden, 1986
- The Strollers, 1987. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1986-1988, Winner of the Young African Award, 1987-1988
- A Cageful of Butterflies, 1989. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1988-9. Winner of the M-Net Book Prize, 1991.
- Rainbow, 1989
- Traveller, 1989
- Merino, 1989
- Serena's Story, 1990
- Tjojo and the wild horses, 1990
- Song of Be, 1991
- Bau and the baobab tree, 1992
- Mandi's wheels, 1992
- The Race, 1992
- Café Thunderball, 1993
- One dark, dark night, 1993
- Jakey, 1997
- An Introduction to Africa, 2000
- Home Now, 2006
- Remembering Green, 2009
References
- Yearwood, Emerging into Independence:The Self and the Culture in Lesley Beake's Song of Be, The Alan Review 24:3 (Spring 1997)
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