Branford Boase Award
The Branford Boase Award is a British literary award presented annually to an outstanding novel for young people by a first-time writer.
Wendy Boase, Editorial Director of Walker Books and Henrietta Branford worked together previously to produce a great number of books. Both Wendy Boase and Henrietta Branford died in 1999 of cancer. The Branford Boase award was created to celebrate and commemorate their names and memories and to encourage new talent in writing which they worked for during their lives. The awards were a joint idea by Julia Eccleshare and Anne Marley who both had jobs do with books.
The Branford Boase Award runs alongside the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for under 19s.
Winners
Winners receive a hand-crafted box with the Branford Boase Award logo on and a cheque for £1,000.
Shortlists
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- Sarwat Chadda - Devil's Kiss - Puffin
- Lucy Christopher - Stolen - Chicken House
- Damian Kelleher - Life, Interrupted - Piccadilly Press
- Anna Perera - Guantanamo Boy - Puffin
- Dan Tunstall - Big and Clever - Five Leaves
- Rachel Ward - Numbers - Chicken House
- Victor Watson - Paradise Barn - Catnip
- 2011[1]
- J P Buxton - I Am the Blade - edited by Beverley Birch, Hachette
- Keren David - When I Was Joe - edited by Maurice Lyon, Frances Lincoln
- Candy Gourlay - Tall Story - edited by Bella Pearson, David Fickling Books
- Gregory Hughes - Unhooking the Moon - edited by Roisin Heycock, Quercus
- Jason Wallace - Out of Shadows - edited by Charlie Sheppard, Andersen Press
- Pat Walsh - The Crowfield Curse - edited by Imogen Cooper, Chicken House
See also
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