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Jenny Robson


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Cape Town, South Africa
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Jennifer Marion Robson (née Murray) is the first author to ever win four consecutive prizes in the Sanlam Youth Novel Competition for the novels Don’t Panic, Mechanic (1994), One Magic Moment (1996), The Denials of Kow-Ten (1998) and Because Pula Means Rain (2000).

Jenny was born and raised in Cape Town. She studied primary school teaching at the Teaching College in Mowbray and went on to study at the University of South Africa (Unisa) where she obtained her B.A. degree in Philosophy.

After two years of teaching in Simons Town, she moved to the diamond-mining town of Orapa in Botswana. She taught music there at Livingstone House for over thirty years. Jenny now lives in Maun in Botswana where she still teaches music. She is widowed and has
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Average rating: 3.91 · 341 ratings · 56 reviews · 33 distinct worksSimilar authors
Praise song

3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Balaclava Boy

3.69 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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Mellow yellow

3.92 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1994
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Because pula means rain

4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2000
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Savannah 2116 AD

4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005
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Monday Evening, Thursday Af...

4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Don't panic, mechanic

3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994
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One Magic Moment

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1996
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Granite

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The denials of Kow₋Ten

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998
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