Tabitha Suzuma

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Field	Value
name	Tabitha Suzuma
image	Tabitha Suzuma purple.jpg
caption	Suzuma in 2010
birth_name	Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma
birth_date
birth_place	London, England
alma_mater	King's College London
occupation	Writer
nationality	British
period	2006–present
genre	Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature
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| name = Tabitha Suzuma | image = Tabitha Suzuma purple.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Suzuma in 2010 | birth_name = Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | alma_mater = King's College London | occupation = Writer | nationality = British | period = 2006–present | genre = Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature | website = Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma is a British writer. She was born in 1975 and lives in London. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. She is known for her novel Forbidden which is based on a taboo relationship between brother and sister.

Biography

Tabitha Suzuma was born in West London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée until age fourteen. She graduated from King's College London with a degree in French literature.

Years later, Suzuma became a teacher and wrote her first novel, A Note of Madness. She has since written five more novels for young adults. Her fifth novel, Forbidden, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister. Her most recent novel was published in 2013.

Bibliography

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Young Adult novels

• A Note of Madness (Random House, 2006)
• From Where I Stand (Random House, 2007)
• A Voice in the Distance (Random House, 2008)
• Without Looking Back (Random House, 2009)
• Forbidden (Random House, 2010)
• Hurt (Random House, 2013)

Awards

• 2007 A Note of Madness shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award
• 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal
• 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
• 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award
• 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
• 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award
• 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award
• 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal
• 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011
• 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal

References

References

1. "Tabitha Suzuma - Author of YA and teen fiction, published in the UK by Penguin Random House". Society of Authors.
2. "Previous Winners – the Branford Boase Award and the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition".
3. (18 November 2008). "Tabitha Wins Young Minds".
4. "Stockport Schools' Award | Book awards | LibraryThing".
5. "Catalyst Awards".
6. "Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing".
7. "Carnegie Medal Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing".
8. "Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing".
9. (24 October 2008). "Tabitha Longlisted".
10. "Lancashire Book of the Year Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing".
11. (25 August 2009). "Tabitha Shortlisted".
12. "Stockport Schools' Award Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing".
13. (25 November 2010). "Carnegie Nomination".
14. "Premio Speciale Cariparma Winners".
15. "Carnegie Medal 2015 nominations announced".

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