Tabitha Suzuma
{{short description|British writer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Tabitha Suzuma
| image = Tabitha Suzuma purple.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Suzuma in 2010
| birth_name = Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|02|02}}
| birth_place = London, England
| alma_mater = King's College London
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = British
| period = 2006–present
| genre = Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature
| website = {{URL|http://www.tabithasuzuma.com/}}
}}
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 West London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée until age fourteen. She graduated from King's College London with a degree in French literature.{{Cite web|url=https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/tabitha-suzuma/|title=Tabitha Suzuma - Author of YA and teen fiction, published in the UK by Penguin Random House|work=Society of Authors|accessdate=14 December 2024}}
Years later, Suzuma 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
[[File:Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma.jpg|thumb|200px|right|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
- 2007 A Note of Madness shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award {{Cite web|url=https://branfordboaseaward.org.uk/previous-winners/|title=Previous Winners – the Branford Boase Award and the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition }}
- 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award {{Cite web|url=http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-wins-young-minds|title = Tabitha Wins Young Minds|date = 18 November 2008}}
- 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award|title = Stockport Schools' Award | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award {{Cite web|url=https://olhs.wordpress.com/tag/catalyst-awards/page/1/|title=Catalyst Awards}}
- 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee|title = Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Carnegie+Medal+Nominee|title = Carnegie Medal Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Waterstone%27s+Children%27s+Book+Prize+Nominee|title = Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Nominee | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award {{Cite web|url=http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-longlisted/|title = Tabitha Longlisted|date = 24 October 2008}}
- 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Lancashire+Book+of+the+Year+Shortlist|title = Lancashire Book of the Year Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award {{Cite web|url=http://evewhite.co.uk/tabitha-shortlisted/|title=Tabitha Shortlisted|date=25 August 2009}}
- 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Stockport+Schools%27+Award+Shortlist|title=Stockport Schools' Award Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing}}
- 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal{{Cite web|url=https://evewhite.co.uk/carnegie-nomination/|title=Carnegie Nomination|date=25 November 2010}}
- 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011 {{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/13545-premio-speciale-cariparma|title = Premio Speciale Cariparma Winners}}
- 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/11173801/Carnegie-Medal-2015-nominations-announced.html|title = Carnegie Medal 2015 nominations announced}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Tabitha Suzuma}}
- [http://www.tabithasuzuma.com Official Website]
- [https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1068792/tabitha-suzuma.html?tab=penguin-biography Author profile at Penguin]
- [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1853134,00.html The Lost Chord (The Guardian)]
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Category:Alumni of King's College London
Category:British Asian writers
Category:British women writers of young adult literature
Category:English people of Japanese descent
Category:English women children's writers
Category:English women novelists
Category:Novelists from London
Category:People educated at Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle
Category:Schoolteachers from London
Category:Writers from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham