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Guardian children's fiction prize 2016

December 2016

  • Composite:  Alex Wheatle and Nadja Spiegelman

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Nadja Spiegelman and Alex Wheatle - books podcast

    How life stories play out in memoir and fiction with the authors of family memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This and YA award-winner Crongton Knights

November 2016

  • ‘I still see myself sometimes as “little Alex” who never thought he would achieve anything’ … Alex Wheatle

    A life in ...
    Alex Wheatle: ‘I felt like the token black writer who talks about ghetto stuff’

    The Guardian children’s fiction prize winner on facing his demons through writing and why he switched to YA
  • Alex Wheatle’s invented slang delighted the judges, who said ‘the language sings from the page’.

    Alex Wheatle wins 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize

    Author who says his time in jail inspired his love of literature triumphs with Crongton Knights, set on a fictitious inner-city estate
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      Zana Fraillon on writing about refugee children: ‘Their resilience keeps hope alive'

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      Brian Selznick: 'I wanted my story to exist between pictures and words'

    • Books blog
      Tanya Landman: 'The MPs' expenses scandal breathed life into history'

October 2016

  • Award-winning British writer Alex Wheatle witnessed the 1981 Brixton Riots, and was briefly incarcerated afterwards.

    Books blog
    Writing YA fiction requires new skillsets: slang dates more swiftly than X Factor winners

  • Authors clockwise from top left: Alex Wheatle, Tanya Landman, Zana Fraillon and Brian Selznick

    Guardian children's fiction prize 2016 shortlist announced

July 2016

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    Guardian young critics competition 2016
    Enter the Guardian young critics competition 2016

    Review one of the Guardian children’s fiction prize 2016 longlisted books as an individual or a school book group and be in with a chance of winning books, national book tokens and an invite to meet authors at our award ceremony – enter here!

March 2016

  • Guardian children's fiction prize logo

    Children's books
    How to enter the Guardian children's fiction prize 2016

    Submissions are now open for publishers to enter the Guardian children’s fiction prize 2016. The closing date is 22 March 2016 so enter ASAP!
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