Background
Janina David was born as the only child to a Jewish Polish family, and moved with them to Warsaw in 1939.
Janina David was born as the only child to a Jewish Polish family, and moved with them to Warsaw in 1939.
She then emigrated to Australia where she completed school and studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining a Bachelor of Arts
She then took Australian citizenship. In 1958, she moved to London, where she was a social worker in some hospitals. In 1959 she began to write her three-volume autobiography, A Square of Sky, A Touch of Earth and Light over the Water.
Since 1978, she has been working as an author and translator of children"s and young people"s books, and of radio plays, for the British Broadcasting Corporation and others
1982 - Goldener Gong for Ein Stück Himmel, together with Dana Vávrová and Franz Peter Wirth.