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YOTO Carnegie Greenaway Medal winners
The winners in this year’s Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards have been revealed at a ceremony at the British Library.
THE awards recognise the best writing and illustration for children and young people, and both of this year’s Medal recipients are first-time winners. Katya Balen won the Yoto Carnegie Medal for her second novel October, October (illustrated by Angela Harding and pub- lished by Bloomsbury), which is described as a “beautiful” and “captivating” tale of 11-year-old October, whose life changes dramatically after a childhood spent living wild in the woods. Katya’s novel, inspired by her own father- in-law, who lives off-grid in the woods, also picked up the Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award, voted for by thousands of young people through the popular Shadowing Scheme. Katya said: “I am so thrilled to have won the Yoto Carnegie Medal, not only because it’s the award every children’s writer dreams
about, but because it is so committed to promoting reading and sharing stories. Sharing stories is something I believe to be one of the most important parts of our lives, simply because stories are our lives. They are threads that connect us all. They make us understand, they give us a shared expe- rience, and they give us something special and private too. They give us wild freedom and they give us safety and comfort. “In my book, October is saved by stories. She is isolated, unusual, angry, friendless, lost, displaced, wild. But through stories she is able to connect to the world around her, and to the people around her. Stories make her who she is, but they also help her to see who other people are too. Stories make her a part of a new world, and keep her old life alive. They connect everything and everyone, and that’s what is so magical about stories.
June 2022
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