Tabitha Suzuma
Tabitha Suzuma | |
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Born | Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma February 2, 1975 London, England |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | British |
Period | 2006–present |
Genre | Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature |
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Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma (born 2 February 1975) is a British writer.
Biography[]
Tabitha Suzuma was born in London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée, but stopped attending school at age fourteen. Ten years later, she became a teacher and wrote her first novel, A Note of Madness. She has since written five more novels for young adults. Her fifth novel, Forbidden, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister. Her most recent novel was published in 2013.
Bibliography[]
Young Adult novels[]
- A Note of Madness (Random House, 2006)
- From Where I Stand (Random House, 2007)
- A Voice in the Distance (Random House, 2008)
- Without Looking Back (Random House, 2009)
- Forbidden (Random House, 2010)
- Hurt (Random House, 2013)
Awards[]
- 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award [1]
- 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award [2]
- 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award [3]
- 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize[4]
- 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal[5]
- 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize[6]
- 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award [7]
- 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year[8]
- 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award [9]
- 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award [10]
- 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal[11]
- 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011 [12]
- 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal[13]
References[]
- ^ http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-wins-young-minds
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award
- ^ https://olhs.wordpress.com/tag/catalyst-awards/page/1/
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Carnegie+Medal+Nominee
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee
- ^ http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-longlisted/
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Lancashire+Book+of+the+Year+Shortlist
- ^ http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-shortlisted/
- ^ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award+Shortlist
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/11173801/Carnegie-Medal-2015-nominations-announced.html
External links[]
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Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- English children's writers
- English women writers
- British writers of young adult literature
- Women writers of young adult literature