In Conversation with Beverley Naidoo: On Crossing Boundaries through Reading and Writing

Beverley Naidoo has written novels, picturebooks, short stories, two plays (stage and radio), and adult nonfiction. Her new novel Children of the Stone City, will be published in 2022. Her early works were written in exile in the UK but set in her birth country South Africa, with banned there until 1991. Her PhD (1992) investigated the potential for challenging racism through reading literature in school. After South Africa's 1994 "transition" Naidoo turned to writing about children from other African countries, as in , Carnegie Medal), its sequel and , Children's Africana Honor Book Award).