![]() ![]() Bloodtide (1999) was joint winner of the Lancashire County Library Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2007, it was shortlisted for the Carnegie of Carnegies. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, it is an honest and disturbing account of teenage homelessness and heroin addiction on the streets of Bristol, and has been adapted for television. ![]() His first published book, The Cry of the Wolf (1990), was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.It was for his controversial teenage novel, Junk (1996) that he gained wider recognition. He continued writing after he moved to London in 1983, experimenting with short stories, radio plays and children's fiction. He moved to Bristol at the age of 21, and began writing, between periods of work and unemployment. After leaving school with two A-Levels in Biology and English, he enrolled on a six-month journalism course. He grew up in Ilfield, near Crawley in Sussex, and moved to Reading, Berkshire at the age of twelve. Writer of acclaimed and often controversial children's fiction, Melvin Burgess was born on 25 April 1954 in Twickenham, Middlesex. ![]()
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