JANE LABOUS
BIO
Jane Labous is the author of three novels: Past Participle (Afsana Press, 2023); The Chameleon Girl (Farafina Books. 2022), and Oh, Sugar, published in October 2024 by Afsana Press.
Jane is also an award-winning journalist known for her frontline coverage of human rights, humanitarian and gender issues, always telling the powerful human stories behind the headlines, with credits ranging from the BBC — including regular slots on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent — to other radio, magazines, newspapers, and the UN. She has worked for INGOs including Amnesty International, Save The Children, Plan International, and The World Health Organisation.
Jane has won the BBC Radio 4 and Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award; a European Journalism Centre Development Reporting Grant, and a Guardian Development Prize, while her Senegal-based multi-medium documentary, Angels, won the Merck More than a Mother Media Recognition & Film Award for Francophone African Countries 2019 and Best Documentary at the Southampton Film Festival 2019. Jane's fiction has been longlisted for prizes including the Bath Novel Prize 2022 and the Santa Fé Writers Project Literary Award 2022. In 2024, she was shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award for her work documenting the stories of child soldiers in Burkina Faso.
Jane is a devoted single parent, and lives in Dorset with her daughter.