Alice Oseman might be ready to add one other award to her shelf as Britain’s prestigious Hay Festival has introduced that she might be a recipient of a Medal for Fiction. The Hay Festival for Arts & Literature 2023 will happen May 25 to June 4.
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Besides Oseman, different recipients of Hay Medals this 12 months embrace Mererid Hopwood (Poetry), Serhiy Zhadan (Songwriting) and Salman Rushdie (Prose). While most of this 12 months’s recipients might be ready to receive their medals dwell on stage in May, Salman Rushdie – who was the sufferer of an assault final 12 months – will receive his remotely.
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is a distinguished competition within the British cultural calendar. Attracting authors and main cultural figures – and getting vital protection on British tv and radio. Begun in 1988, it takes place throughout ten days in late May/early June in Hay-on-Wye, Wales yearly. Since 2012, when the UK hosted the Olympics, the competition has been awarding its personal locally-crafted medals in varied cultural fields as illustration, fiction, poetry, drama, and extra. Previous recipients have included Chris Riddell (Illustration; 2015), Cressida Cowell (Fiction; 2017), Margaret Atwood (Prose; 2018), Axel Scheffler (Illustration; 2019), and David Harewood (Drama; 2022).
Hay Festival CEO Julie Finch mentioned,
“Hay Festival Medals this year will be awarded to honour exceptional work in poetry, fiction, songwriting and prose as we celebrate four groundbreaking storytellers at Hay Festival 2023. This spring’s edition is a beacon, an international symbol of hope for the collective, creative imagination and a better future.”
Oseman debuted in 2014 along with her novel Solitaire, at the modest age of 20. She has produced three different standalone novels and two novellas however what she is greatest identified for is her beloved ongoing LGBT romance webcomic Heartstopper which she each writes and illustrates. Debuting in 2017 on Tapas, it amassed a big following which has solely exploded in print. In 2022 Heartstopper was launched as a Netflix collection, which Oseman scripted. The TV collection has been renewed for an extra two seasons.
She has acquired a number of awards within the literary and TV house – together with the Inky YA fiction prize in 2017, and Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Graphic Novels & Comics with the third and fourth Heartstopper collections in 2020 and 2022. Last 12 months was a very bumper 12 months for award wins and nominations with each the fourth quantity of Heartstopper and the launch of the TV collection. In truth – in a time when comedian e book variations to TV and movie usually have little impression on gross sales – the Heartstopper present significantly boosted gross sales such that Oseman was the best promoting comics writer within the 2022 UK e book house.
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