Onjali Q. Raúf

Onjali Q. Raúf is a multi-award-winning children’s author and women’s and refugee human rights activist. She is the founder and CEO of O’s Refugee Aid Team which mobilises aid convoys and funds to help frontline refugee response teams across northern France. She is author of Sunday Times bestseller, The Boy at the Back of the Class, winner of the Blue Peter Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2019; the Sakura Medal of Japan in 2020 and the Prix Janusz Korczak Prize in 2022 amongst others. Awarded an MBE in 2022 for her services to women’s rights and children’s literature, she is also recipient of the NEU Fred and Anne Jarvis Award for services to education and humanitarian works.