Natalia Zabaneh Author

Natalia Zabaneh was born in 1946 in Haifa, Palestine, during the British mandate to a Ukrainian Jewish mother and a Christian Arab father. The family immigrated to Britain in 1950. Natalia has lived in Israel, Cyprus and Brazil. Since 1975 she has lived in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey with her husband, a retired civil servant. Natalia has worked as a teacher, lecturer, head teacher and school inspector. Backlash was published in 1970 and is her only novel.  Natalia has written ten plays that have been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4. Her daughter is a senior barrister and her son is a conductor and professor of new music. Natalia is the proud Granny to five grandchildren.