Lesley Beake (born 1949) is a Scottish-born South African children's author.

Life

Lesley Beake was born and went to school in

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, Scotland. 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".Sandra L. Beckett, ''Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives'', Taylor & Francis, 2009, p.128

Works

* ''Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure: the journal of Peter David Hadden'', 1986 * ''The Strollers'', 1987. Winner of the

Percy FitzPatrick Award The Percy FitzPatrick Award, in recognition of author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, was initiated in 1970 for the best South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Afric ...

, 1986-1988, Winner of the

Young African Award Young may refer to: * Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents * Youth, the time of life when one's age is low, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood Music * The Young, an America ...

, 1987-1988 * ''A Cageful of Butterflies'', 1989. Winner of the

, 1988-9. Winner of the

M-Net Book Prize M-Net Literary Awards were a group of South African literary awards, awarded from 1991 to 2013. They were established and sponsored by M-Net (Electronic Media Network), a South African television station. The award was suspended indefinitely a ...

, 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) 1949 births Living people South African women novelists South African children's writers South African women children's writers British women children's writers 20th-century South African novelists 20th-century Scottish women writers 21st-century South African novelists 21st-century Scottish women writers Writers from Edinburgh Scottish emigrants to South Africa {{SouthAfrica-writer-stub