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SHELLEY DAVIDOW – BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS 
Shelley Davidow was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1969. She
completed a Bachelor's degree in English and Drama at Wits University, and in 1991 she achieved recognition for her young adult novel Freefalling
in the national Maskew Miller Longman Young Africa Award. Chris van Wyk and Lesley Beake, judges for the competition, wrote of Freefalling
- a story about growing up in the divided South Africa of the 1970's and 1980's:
"Shelley Davidow achieves an exquisiteness and lucidity not often found in literature for young people."
She has lived and worked in South Africa, Zimbabwe, England, Germany, Qatar and the USA.
She has published a variety of books, ranging from children's readers for Africa and the Caribbean, to young adult literature and adult non-fiction. She co-wrote the biography My
Life with Aids-Charmayne Broadway's Story (Southern Books, South Africa 1998). Recently she was nominated for the 2002 African Writer's Prize for her young adult novel In
the Shadow of Inyangani. (Macmillan, 2003). She now lives in Byron Bay, Australia, with her husband and son.
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