African novelist Zukiswa Wanner has a new children’s book forthcoming from UK’s Pushkin Children’s Books in May. The book is titled The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run. Wanner’s new book will be published by Pushkin Children’s Books on May 6. The book is suitable for 8 to 12 year olds.
Here’s a synopsis by the publishers: “In March 1961, after giving a brief speech at a conference, Nelson Mandela vanished. For the next eighteen months he was an outlaw, living under assumed identities and in various disguises (sometimes as a chauffeur, sometimes a gardener) as the South African police and secretservices, helped by MI5 and the CIA, sought him in vain. His mission? To undergo military training and set up armed resistance to apartheid.”
Last year, Wanner received the 2020 Goethe Medal Award. Her previous novels include The Madams (2006), Men of the South (2010) and London Capetown Joburg (2014).
She has alsos erved on the board of Writivism and as a judge for the Etisalat Prize for Literature andCommonwealth Short Story Prize.
You can preorder the book here
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