Beverley Naidoo - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	21-May-1943
Place of Birth	Johannesburg (Gauteng, South Africa)
Nationality	South Africa
Profession	Writer, Author, Novelist
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, 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 â€“ in 1986 for Journey to Jo'burg and in 1997 for No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa.

Awards by Beverley Naidoo

Check all the awards nominated and won by Beverley Naidoo.

2006

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Angus Book Award	Web of Lies

2004

Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children

Honored for : Out of Bounds

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	Out of Bounds
Carnegie Medal in Literature	Web of Lies

2002

Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children

Honored for : The Other Side of Truth

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	The Other Side of Truth

2001

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Angus Book Award	The Other Side of Truth

2000

Carnegie Medal in Literature

Honored for : The Other Side of Truth

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize	The Other Side of Truth Silver Award, 9-11 years

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize	No turning back

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