Allan Stratton

Allan Stratton’s novels for young readers and adults include Chanda’s Secrets, winner of over twenty-six awards and citations including the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Children’s Africana Book Award, and Booklist’s Editor’s Choice. The film adaptation, “Life, Above All,” won the 2010 Francois Chalais Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, and was South Africa’s official entry for the 2011 Oscar for best foreign language film. His most recent YA novel, The Way Back Home (Scholastic Canada), was a Governor General’s Award Finalist and CLIP Carnegie Medal nominee, and is this year’s winner of the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award. Stratton lives in Toronto.