Jane Labous Author

Jane Labous is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster known for her frontline coverage of human rights and gender issues, always telling the powerful human stories behind the headlines. Her debut novel, THE CHAMELEON GIRL, is published in Nigeria by Lagos-based publisher, Farafina Books. Jane read English and French at Jesus College, Oxford, before spending nearly two decades working as a freelance stringer and foreign correspondent for international press and INGOs, most often out of Dakar, Senegal. This while developing her creative art as a writer, filmmaker and novelist, drawing on her insider knowledge of the aid sector and foreign journalism, and her unique experience of both expat and local family life in Ngor, Dakar. Jane's credits span a vista of international outlets, including The Independent, The Times, Geographical, The LA Times and BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. She has also worked as a writer and filmmaker for aid/humanitarian agencies including the UN, the World Health Organisation, Save The Children, and Amnesty International. She has won the BBC Radio 4 and Royal Geographical Society Documentary Award, the Merck More than a Mother Media Recognition and Film Award for Francophone African Countries, and a European Journalism Centre Development Reporting Grant. Her fiction has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Prize and the Santa Fé Writers' Project Literary Award. As a devoted single parent, Jane often writes stories, characters and locations to honour her daughter, who is half-Senegalese, reflecting their diverse family experience. Together, they love long walks, picnics and adventures in the sea air, gardening, painting, and lots and lots of reading...