Melvin Burgess

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Melvin Burgess Biography

Children’s fiction author who rose to fame in 1996 after publishing Junk, a young adult novel about teenagers in Bristol who use heroin.

He wrote The Cry of the Wolf, which won the Carnegie Medal in 1990.

His post-apocalyptic novels include 1999’s Bloodtide and 2007’s Bloodsong.

He was born in Twickenham, Middlesex.

His 2003 novel, Doing it, was adapted into the U.S. television series Life as We Know It, starring Lisa Darr.

Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children’s fiction. He became famous in 1998 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year’s best children’s book by a British author. For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.

Andersen published all of Burgess’ books until the mid-1990s. The Baby and Fly Pie (1993) was another highly commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal, a distinction that was roughly annual.

He completed his first book accepted for publication in his mid-thirties: a novel, The Cry of the Wolf, published by Andersen Press in 1990, which was highly commended by librarians for the Carnegie Medal, which Gillian Cross won for Wolf. Cross features a girl and a metaphorical wolf, the characters being the last grey wolf in Britain.

Junk won the 1996 Medal and also the annual Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize judged by a panel of British children’s writers, which The Guardian confers only once upon any author. Burgess is one of six authors, all 1967 to 1996, who won the Carnegie Medal for their Guardian Prize-winning books.

Kite (1997) features a boy who hatches a red kite egg.

In other books such as The Ghost Behind the Wall (2000), Burgess has dealt with less realist and sometimes fantastic themes. Bloodtide (1999) and Bloodsong (2007) are post-apocalypse adaptations of Volsunga Saga.

In 2001 Burgess wrote the novelisation of the film Billy Elliot, based on Lee Hall’s screenplay.

Burgess again courted predictable controversy in 2003, with the publication of Doing It, which dealt with underage sex. In the U.S. it was adapted as a television series, Life as We Know It.

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