Lesley Beake

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, 1986-7.
• 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)