This is last week’s news, but it’s important enough to repeat!

Siobhan Dowd has won the Carnegie Medal for children’s literature, making her the first author to win posthumously.  She won the medal for Bog Child.  Her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, was also shortlisted for the Carnegie. 

Dowd began writing in 2003 and died in 2007.  In those four short years, she created four books for young people.  Amazing.