Patrick Ness has won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize for his amazing Knife of Never Letting Go!  Hurrah! 

Here is my review of the book, if you missed it.  One might call it gushing. 

The Guardian article about the award has a great interview with Ness.  After several authors being apologetic about writing for teens and children, this quote from the interview is particularly refreshing:

"The thing a teenage audience will do for you is that if you don’t insult their intelligence, they will often follow you to strange places, so you can really really go for it. This story felt like something that’s got to be really gone for, really shouted out from the rafters, and teenage fiction is where you can do that and still not be shoved into genre," Ness said.

The rest of the interview is definitely worth reading too.  I also like his take on truth and teens.  Great stuff.