| Malorie Blackman wins Eleanor Farjeon Award - 29th September 2005 |
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Malorie Blackman has been awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award by the Children's Book Circle (CBC). The award is set to recognise the contribution made by an individual to the children's book world and previous award winners include Jacqueline Wilson and Philip Pullman. |
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In reference to Blackman the CBC highlighted that "Malorie never set out to be a black writer writing books for black children - she sees herself as a writer writing for children." "However with her Noughts & Crosses trilogy, she explores in dramatic and effective fashion a racist society in reverse." Sales of the trilogy have already topped 300,000 and earlier in the year sales for all Malorie's titles have exceeded one million books and doing so she has become the first black British children's writer to achieve such sales. Malorie continues to spend much of her time visiting schools, libraries and festivals discussing her work and she is involved in the diversity in Publishing movement. |
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