Tabitha Suzuma

Tabitha Suzuma (born 2 February 1975 in London) is a British writer.

Tabitha Suzuma
BornTabitha Victoria Anne Suzuma
1975 (age 44–45)
London, United Kingdom
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
Period2006–present
GenreFiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature
Website
www.tabithasuzuma.com

Biography

Tabitha Suzuma was born in London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée, but stopped attending school at age fourteen. Ten years later, she 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
FORBIDDEN by Tabitha Suzuma

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
  • 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award [1]
  • 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award [2]
  • 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award [3]
  • 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize [4]
  • 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal [5]
  • 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize [6]
  • 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award [7]
  • 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year [8]
  • 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award [9]
  • 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award [10]
  • 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal [11]
  • 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011 [12]
  • 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal [13]

References
  1. http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-wins-young-minds
  2. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award
  3. https://olhs.wordpress.com/tag/catalyst-awards/page/1/
  4. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee
  5. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Carnegie+Medal+Nominee
  6. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee
  7. http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-longlisted/
  8. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Lancashire+Book+of+the+Year+Shortlist
  9. http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-shortlisted/
  10. https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award+Shortlist
  13. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/11173801/Carnegie-Medal-2015-nominations-announced.html
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