a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Awards and Prizes". Kids at Random House. Random House Children's Books . Retrieved 23 March 2007. You turned 60 this year – double the age that doctor predicted for you. What are your ambitions now?

The Deadly Dare Mysteries (contents: Deadly Dare, 1995, Computer Ghost, 1997, Lie Detectives , 1998; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN 0-552-55353-0 Join Malorie as talks with author, journalist and TV presenter Candice Brathwaite to share how she gravitated to imaginary worlds and realms to escape her complicated childhood. Just Sayin’ is an ode to the younger Malorie, and all the disconnected dreamers like her, as she shares the darker moments that led to her status as a world-renowned author and inspirational writer. The anger at racism (and classism) that inspired those books runs like a thread through this one. Crass colleagues, bigoted customs officers, unimaginative librarians, social media white supremacists – they’re all here. She doesn’t forget a personal insult, but she sees the bigger picture too – writing with especial fierceness about Brexit, the hostile environment policy, and the white media’s reporting of the Brixton riots and the Stephen Lawrence case. She reveals, I think for the first time, that she turned down a CBE in the wake of the Windrush scandal – and she reprints here her starchy letter saying in no uncertain terms why. In 2008, she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015, she was the Children’s Laureate.For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). Through a poverty-riddled adolescence, through first jobs and educational experiences (I was cringing and angry at what a careers adviser had to say), to eventual discovery and d*mned hard work towards a dream, Malorie shows that what you want doesn't just drop into your lap. She's worked hard to learn, to become a master of her craft, to hone skills and earn a reputation and success. There are so many: Dorothy Koomson, Patrice Lawrence – anything Patrice does. Elle McNicoll; I thought her A Kind of Spark was a brilliant, brilliant book. And I do love my graphic novels: I really enjoyed BB Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers, and I want to read his latest one. How are you with managing distractions such as social media when you write? I’m guessing, with your productivity, pretty good… It absolutely was something I wanted to get behind. I have nothing but respect for Michael [Stormzy]; he’s amazing. I love the way he’s done his own thing and not sought permission from anybody. So all power to him. Plus, the fact that I was in his video – Mel Made Me Do It – which astounded my daughter! If that sounds like a mutual love-in, I’m good with that. But that said, I have to stress, I do not have his digits. So for all those people out there saying, “Oh, could you ask Stormzy this?”: it’s not going to happen!

For more than 30 years, her books have helped to shape British culture and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK and are already undisputed classics of 21st-century children's literature. The sixth and final book in the Noughts & Crosses series, Endgame , came out last year. How do you feel now that’s over?

Because I didn’t make it up, did I? It’s all true! I had to revisit past events, dig deep into memories… There’s certain things in my life where I thought, OK, well, I can just put that to one side, never have to revisit that again. But obviously I did for this book. I wrote the autobiography because I just really wanted to talk about the truth Not only do we get to see all of that, but more about why she wrote her books too. I was especially interested in hearing more about where her spark for Noughts and Crosses came from and that publication process. In some cases, anger fuelled her, and sometimes it was exclusion and defying the odds, and sometimes imagination... it's also a very true story about perserverance which was reassuring to see from this great author, as someone who is an aspiring author as well. Hugo Award & 1944 Retro Hugo Award Finalists". The Hugo Awards. 2 April 2019 . Retrieved 11 August 2019.