Tabitha Suzuma

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

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 went on to write three more novels for young adults: From Where I Stand, A Voice in the Distance and Without Looking Back. Her latest novel, Forbidden, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister. She is currently working on her sixth novel.

Awards

• 2006 A Note of Madness shortlisted for the Times Educational Supplement NASEN Book Award
• 2007 A Note of Madness shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
• 2008 A Note of Madness nominated for the Young Minds Book 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 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
• 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal
• 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstone's 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 winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011

• Branford Boase Award 2007 shortlist
• YoungMinds Book Award
• The Stockport Schools Book Award 2008
• Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
• The Catalyst Prize 2008
• The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway website 2008
• Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
• Bookseller.com
• YoungMinds Book Award
• The Stockport Schools Book Award 2010
• The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway website 2011
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