Jane Labous is the author of three novels, Past Participle (Afsana Press, 2023), The Chameleon Girl (Farafina Books, 2022), and, Oh, Sugar, which will be published by Afsana Press in October 2024. 

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 social and political headlines, with credits ranging from the BBC — including regular slots on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent — to the UN.

Jane’s awards include the BBC Radio 4 and Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award; the Merck More than a Mother Media Recognition & Film Award for Francophone African Countries; a European Journalism Centre Development Reporting Grant, and Best Documentary at the Southampton Film Festival, for her documentary project, Angels. In 2024, she was shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award for her work documenting the stories of child soldiers in Burkina Faso. Her fiction has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Prize and the Santa Fé Writers’ Project Literary Award

Jane is a devoted single parent, and lives with her daughter in Dorset, UK.

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