Awards & Winners

Beverley Naidoo

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 – 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