The Guardian view on Patrice Lawrence: a children’s laureate for our times | Editorial
The author of the bestselling young-adult novel Orangeboy is ideally suited to address the crisis of teenage masculinity and readingIn 2017 there was outrage when the Carnegie medal, the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s literature prize, had no minority ethnic authors on its longlist, despite nominations for Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman and Patrice Lawrence for her widely acclaimed young adult novel Orangeboy. At that point, no writer of colour had ever won. Nearly a decade later, Lawrence…
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