Melvin Burgess
British young-adult novelist; Junk (1996) won the Carnegie Medal.
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- Melvin Burgess is a British writer of children's and young adult fiction.
- His novel Junk (1996), about heroin-addicted teenagers in Bristol, won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade in Britain.
- Doing It (2003), about teenagers and sex, was adapted in the US as the television series Life as We Know It.
Key facts
- Born
- 25 April 1954, Twickenham, Middlesex1
- Novels
- The Cry of the Wolf (1990); Junk (1996); Bloodtide (1999); Billy Elliot (2001 novelisation); Doing It (2003); Nicholas Dane (2009); The Hit (2013); Loki (2022)1
- Awards
- Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for Junk (1996)1
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2022)1
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