Lesley Beake

South African children's author

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^{[citation needed]}
A Cageful of Butterflies, 1989. Winner of the Percy FitzPatrick Award, 1988-9. Winner of the M-Net Book Prize, 1991.^{[citation needed]}
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

^ Linda Rode & G. Jakes Gerwel, eds., Crossing over: new writing for a new South Africa, 1995, p.57
^ Sandra L. Beckett, Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives, Taylor & Francis, 2009, p.128