Born in apartheid South Africa, Shereen Pandit became a lawyer, lecturer, political activist and trade unionist. In 1986, with her home country in turmoil, she was forced into political exile in the UK. There she completed a PhD in law, continued her activism and began writing. Her writing has been widely published in the UK and elsewhere. It has been translated into various languages, awarded several prizes and been shortlisted for others as well as performed and broadcast on National Public Radio in the USA.  Her work is widely used in European and other secondary schools. Most recent publications include Lockdown: One Hundred Days That Changed My World (memoir), Waiting for Fidel in the Springtime (short story collection) and Trafalgar, The Golden Years, edited together with her brother. She is currently working on a memoir about the women in her family and preparing a second short story collection for publication.