Carnegie Medal 2009
The late Siobhan Dowd has won the 2009 Carnegie Medal for Bog Child. This is the first posthumous medal in the history of the UK’s most prestigious children’s literature award.
The book is “an absolutely astonishing piece of writing”, said the librarian Joy Court, chair of the judging panel (the Carnegie medal winner is selected by 13 librarians from around the UK). “To be able to write like that when she was going through what she was going through is just astonishing – the sheer beauty of the language, the descriptions of the environment; she has such an amazing sense of place.”
More from The Guardian here.
And put twenty minutes aside to view the acceptance speeches from Siobhan’s sister and an impassioned David Fickling.
