About
Ellen Banda-Aaku has lived, studied and worked in Ghana, South Africa, the UK and Zambia. She has published three books for children and her short stories have appeared in anthologies published in Australia, South Africa and the US.
In 2004 she won the Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa for Wandi’s Little Voice, a book for children. In 2007, her short story, Sozi’s Box was the overall winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
Ellen has three university degrees and currently lives in the UK with her two children.
In June 2011 Penguin published Ellen’s book Patchwork.