Mal Peet Wins Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
Written by jen, 9th October 2009
Mal Peet, the author of last year's Liverpool Reads has won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, for his latest book Exposure. Well done, Mal!!
The book is a modern retelling of Othello, in which the Moor of Venice and his wife Desdemona are transformed into the South American equivalent of Posh and Becks.
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