Tabitha Suzuma

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.

Tabitha Suzuma
Suzuma in 2010
Born	Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma (1975-02-02) February 2, 1975 (age 50) London, England
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Period	2006–present
Genre	Fiction, Young adult fiction, Children's literature
Website
www.tabithasuzuma.com

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.^[1]

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

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 ^[2]
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award ^[3]
• 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award ^[4]
• 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award ^[5]
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[6]
• 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[7]
• 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize^[8]
• 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award ^[9]
• 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year^[10]
• 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award ^[11]
• 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award ^[12]
• 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[13]
• 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011 ^[14]
• 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal^[15]