I was interviewed recently by someone who wanted me to define myself as a Northern, Geordie writer and I said no.”Īlmond was born in Newcastle in 1951 and says he always wanted to be a writer. “I live in the North and my language is Northern. “For a long time I wanted no label at all, but as time has gone on I’ve accepted it,” he says. It’s a frontier place and it is seen as somewhere with failing industry, but there is a North that is rich in history, and my artistic roots go back to the Lindisfarne Gospels. He has been associated with the North-East ever since his breakout children’s novel Skellig, first published by Hodder Children’s Books 21 years ago, and says the North has always been a “great” place to be a writer, even though it is often misunderstood as a region. Being seen as a Northern writer is both a blessing and a curse, according to David Almond, who was one of the judges of this year’s Hachette Children’s Novel Award.
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