ANNA PERERA
Anna Perera has been a part time chambermaid, waitress, postmistress, anything to bring in cash when she was growing up twenty miles from London before training as a teacher. She taught English in two London secondary schools before running a unit for teenage boys excluded from mainstream school. After completing an MA in Writing For Children, she had five books published, including Guantanamo Boy which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Children's Book Award and long listed for the Carnegie Medal. She also gives talks, writes articles and screenplays. She lives in London.
For more information visit www.annaperera.com
LATEST BOOK: GUANTANAMO BOY
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from Rochdale, is abducted from Pakistan while on holiday with his family. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge, where his hopes and dreams are crushed under the cruellest of circumstances. An innocent denied his freedom at a time when Western boys are finding theirs, Khalid tries and fails to understand what's happening to him and cannot fail to be a changed young man.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Guantanamo Boy: Puffin, UK; Harpers Collins Australia 2009. German rights to CBJ/Random House; Brazilian rights to Ediouro; Thai rights to Sanskrit; Spanish rights to Ediciones B; Slovene rights to Mish Publishing, Chinese traditional language rights to Morning Star Publishing, Chinese Simplified language rights to Shanghai Ying Te Song Culture Publishing. The Glass Collector (2011) Puffin, UK; Harpers Collins Australia; Chinese Simplified language rights to Shanghai Ying Te Song Culture Publishing.
The Night The Lights Went Out: Tamarind/Random House 2006,
Antarctic Adventure: OUP 2003,
Skew Whiff : OUP 2001,
Lolly Woe: OUP 2001.
