Àtụ:Infobox Writer Jo-Anne Richards bụ onye odeakụkọ na onye edemede South Africa. Usòrò:Jo-Anne Richards.jpg Jo-Anne Richards tolitere na Port Elizabeth, South Africa, wee gụchaa ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị Collegiate Girls. Akwụkwọ mbụ ọ gụrụ bụ The Boy Next Door na The Island of Adventure . Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Rhodes na Grahamstown n'afọ 1979, wee nweta akara ugo mmụta nsọpụrụ na Journalism na Linguistics. Ọ na-ejide PhD na okike ide na Mahadum Witwatersrand, ebe ọ bụ onye nkuzi na akwụkwọ akụkọ maka afọ iri na ise. Richards rụrụ ọrụ oge niile maka akwụkwọ akụkọ South Africa anọ - The Star, Sunday Express, Cape Times na Anyasị Post - akuko, sub-edezi na-edezi akụkọ. O deela atụmatụ na mgbakwunye maka ọtụtụ akwụkwọ akụkọ South Africa na akwụkwọ akụkọ, gụnyere Fair Lady, Elle, Diversions, True Love, Sunday Times Magazine, The Star na Mail &amp; Guardian . Richards wee bụrụ onye a ma ama na akwụkwọ akụkọ mbụ ya, The Innocence of Roast Chicken (1996), bụ onye ghọrọ onye na-ere ahịa kacha mma na obodo ya wee depụta aha mkpirisi maka Nrite Akwụkwọ M-Net wee họpụta ya maka Impac International Dublin Literary Award.