Dominican writer, Elizabeth Acevedo, has won the Carnegie Medal, the most prestigious award for children’s literature in Great Britain. Acevedo received the prize on Tuesday, 18 June 2019, for her first novel, “The Poet X”.
The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new English-language book for children or young adults. It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, was a previous winner.
She told reporters from Listin Diario newspaper that she was very moved as she was the first person of color to win the prize along with being the first Dominican as well.
Acevedo had previously been a winner of a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael Printz Award and the Pura Belpré Award.
The book has been a New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse. It is about an Afro-Latina heroine.
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19 June 2019