Tabitha Suzuma Explained

Tabitha Suzuma
Birth Name:	Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma
Birth Date:	2 February 1975
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	British
Period:	2006–present
Genre:	Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature

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 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

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 ^[1]
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award ^[2]
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award ^[3]
• 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award ^[4]
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[5]
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[6]
• 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[7]
• 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award ^[8]
• 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year^[9]
• 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award ^[10]
• 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award ^[11]
• 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[12]
• 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011 ^[13]
• 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[14]

External links

• Official Website
• Author profile at Penguin
• The Lost Chord (The Guardian)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Previous Winners – the Branford Boase Award and the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition .
2. Web site: Tabitha Wins Young Minds. 18 November 2008.
3. Web site: Stockport Schools' Award | Book awards | LibraryThing.
4. Web site: Catalyst Awards.
5. Web site: Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing.
6. Web site: Carnegie Medal Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing.
7. Web site: Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing.
8. Web site: Tabitha Longlisted. 24 October 2008.
9. Web site: Lancashire Book of the Year Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing.
10. Web site: Tabitha Shortlisted. 25 August 2009.
11. Web site: Stockport Schools' Award Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing.
12. Web site: Carnegie Nomination. 25 November 2010.
13. Web site: Premio Speciale Cariparma Winners.
14. Web site: Carnegie Medal 2015 nominations announced.