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1987 |
Winner of the Young Africa Award for children’s
literature (The Strollers) |
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1988 |
Winner of the Sir Percy Fitzpatrick Award for the best
children’s book (The Strollers) |
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Third Prize in the Young Africa Award (Traveller) |
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1989 |
Winner of the Cosmopolitan Award for a woman of
achievement |
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Cageful of Butterflies won second prize in the Young
Africa Award |
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J&B Rare Achievers Award for outstanding success in the
field of literature |
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1990 |
Winner of the Sir Percy Fitzpatrick Award for the best
children’s book (Cageful of Butterflies) |
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1991 |
Winner of the M-Net Book Prize (Cageful of
Butterflies) |
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SACBF Honours Awards for Song of Be |
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Chosen for inclusion in Bookchat’s Southern African
Children’s Book of the Year |
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Honourable mention in Namibian Children’s Book Forum
Awards in English Prose category
(Tjojo and the Wild Horses) |
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1992 |
One Dark Night a winner in the READ Little Library
competition |
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Children’s Book Forum Honours List (The Race,
Oxford University Press) |
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1993 |
Song of Be selected as a Notable Children’s Book for
1993 by the American Librarian’s Association |
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1994 |
Song of Be selected as a Best Book for Young Adults
by the American Librarian’s Association |
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1995 |
Song of Be awarded a gold medal for Best Children’s
Book in English by the Namibian Children’s Book Forum |
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1996 |
One Dark Night (Cambridge University Press) part of
The Little Library package which won the Asahi Reading
Award (IBBY) |
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1997 |
Awarded a scholarship to America by the Highlights
Foundation. Attended a writer’s conference at Chautauqua
in New York State. |
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Nominated as South Africa’s entry in an international
competition, the Premio Mundial De Literatura Jose
Marti. This award is given to ‘a writer with a
distinguished work in the field of children’s and
adolescent literature’. |
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2002 |
Africa’s Best 100 Books – short-listed in top 500 |
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2003 |
Waiting for Rain requested as an exhibition book by
the South African Museum in the new permanent rock art
exhibition. |
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2004 |
Nominated by the South African Children’s Book Forum as
candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Award |
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IBBY Conference in Cape Town. The South African
Children’s Book Forum (SACBF) included in their list of
100 best children’s books: Song of Be, The Strollers and
Waiting for Rain. |
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2005 |
Nominated as a candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Award
in Sweden. |
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2006 |
Home Now chosen by British Sunday Times as Book of the
Month. |
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2009 |
The Strollers to be included in an international
publication by Quintessence entitled ‘1001 Children’s
Books’, which will be published internationally in many
languages. This will be a beautifully illustrated guide
to the very best 1001 children’s books throughout
history to the current day. The general editor on the
project is Julia Eccleshare, the children’s books editor
for the UK Guardian newspaper, and contributing authors
include Isabel Allende, Quentin Blake and Raymond
Briggs. |
