Diverse Voices from around the world…
Cristy Burne, winner of the 2009 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award, has set up a blog to track the progress of her novel Takeshita Demons from winning the award through to publication. She is running a series of blog posts featuring a questionnaire completed by each of the people on the shortlist – check out the first one, Folake Idowu of Nigeria, who wrote the intriguing-sounding Gbenga and the Reticent Chromosome, and who also has a blog… These interviews will be well worth following – voices of new writers from across the world!
May 31st, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Takeshita Demons looks like an interesting book and can’t wait to see the published work, but as is apparent from Cristy’s blog, these things do still take time even if you do win a prize!
June 1st, 2009 at 6:00 am
Well, the special thing about the Diverse Voices Award is that it is awarded to an unpublished author so I suppose the submission is a manuscript that still has to go through the editing process . My understanding is that Frances Lincoln aim to publish Takeshita Demons to coincide with the Announcement of next year’s Award.