Branford Boase Award 2009
This is the award for first-time children’s and YA novelists, and if you consider that previous recipients include Jenny Downham, Siobhan Dowd, Mal Peet, Francis Hardinge, Meg Rosoff, Kevin Brooks and Marcus Sedgwick, you’d have to agree that the judges know how to pick them!
The winner for the tenth anniversary year has just been announced, so watch out for Bridget Collins, who is sure to be on the up and up. The Traitor Game won’t be available here in paperback until November.
The award is named in honour of two women, novelist Henrietta Branford and editor Wendy Boase, who both died of cancer in 1999.
