An Interview with Kevin Brooks

  • Ben Screech University of the West of England

Abstract

Kevin Brooks is an English writer of young adult fiction. He is the author of thirteen bestselling novels, as well as three series of detective novels aimed at a teenage audience. In 2013 he won the Carnegie Medal for his controversial book The Bunker Diary, a dystopian novel that was labelled by British newspaper The Telegraph as a "uniquely sickening read" which "seems to have won on shock value rather than merit", but which was defended by the Carnegie judging panel as "absolutely the book Carnegie should be championing – superbly well-written, atmospheric, and loved by readers".

Author Biography

Ben Screech, University of the West of England
Ben Screech is a PhD candidate at the University of the West of England researching otherness in twenty-first century British children's fiction. He will be speaking on 'homelessness in the fiction of Kevin Brooks' at 2015's 'Child and the Book' conference in Aveiro, Portugal. Ben tweets on issues relating to literacy education and children's literature, you can follow him on twitter @benscreech87
Issue
Vol. 17 No. 3 (2014)
Section
Jabberwocky
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