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词条 Lesley Beake
释义

  1. Life

  2. Works

  3. References

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

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