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Spouse
Neil Morrison
Nationality
British
Children
Elizabeth Morrison
Name
Malorie Blackman
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Gadgetman
Role
Writer
Born
Oneta Malorie Blackman 8 February 1962 (age 62) Clapham, London, England (
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Malorie Blackman, OBE (born 8 February 1962), is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.
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Early life
Blackman was born in Clapham, London. Her parents were both from Barbados. At school, she wanted to be an English teacher, but she grew up to become a systems programmer instead. She earned an HNC at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.
She married Neil in the 1990s and their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1995. Blackman said, "I'm just Malorie Blackman, a black woman writer."
Author
Blackman's first book was Not So Stupid, a collection of horror and science fiction stories for young adults, published in November 1990. Ever since, she has written more than 60 children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play.
Her work has won over 15 awards. Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running children's drama Byker Grove as well as television adaptations of her novels Whizziwig and Pig-Heart Boy. Her books have been translated into over 15 languages including Spanish, Welsh, German, Japanese, Chinese and French.
Blackman's award-winning Noughts & Crosses series, exploring love, racism and violence, is set in a fictional dystopia. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's Blast website, Blackman said that noughts and crosses is "one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins". In an interview for The Times, Blackman said that before writing Noughts & Crosses, her protagonists' ethnicities had never been central to the plots of her books. She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child."
Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly. She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin. The Times interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about the delay for the Noughts & Crosses series to be published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing what might drive someone to become a terrorist". Noughts and Crosses is now available in the US published under the title Black & White (Simon & Schuster Publishers, 2005).
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
In June 2013, Blackman was announced as the new Children's Laureate, succeeding Julia Donaldson.
Personal life
Malorie Blackman lives with her husband Neil and daughter Elizabeth in Kent, England. In her free time, she likes to play her piano, compose, play computer games and write poetry. She is the subject of a biography for children by Verna Wilkins.
In March 2014, Blackman joined other prominent authors in supporting the Let Books Be Books campaign, which seeks to stop children’s books being labelled as 'for girls' or 'for boys'.
In August 2014, Blackman was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
Novels for young adults
Not So Stupid!: Incredible Short Stories, The Women's Press, 1990, ISBN 0-7043-4924-8
Trust Me, Livewire, 1992, ISBN 0-7043-4931-0. Corgi Children's, 2013, ISBN 0-552-56847-3
Words Last Forever, Mammoth, 1998, ISBN 0-7497-2983-X
The Noughts & Crosses series:
Noughts & Crosses, Doubleday, 2001, ISBN 0-385-60008-9
An Eye for an Eye, Corgi Children's, 2003, ISBN 0-552-54925-8
Knife Edge, Doubleday, 2004, ISBN 0-385-60527-7
Checkmate, Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 0-385-60773-3
Double Cross, Doubleday, 6 November 2008
The Stuff of Nightmares, Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 0-385-61043-2
Boys Don't Cry, Doubleday Children's, 2010. Corgi Children's, 2011, ISBN 0-552-54862-6
Unheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, ed. Malorie Blackman, Corgi Children's, 2007, ISBN 0-552-55600-9
Noble Conflict, Doubleday Children's, 2013, ISBN 0-385-61042-4
Short stories for young adults
"Humming Through My Fingers" in the multi-author collection Shining on: A Collection of Stories in Aid of the Teen Cancer Trust, Picadilly Press, 2006, ISBN 1-85340-893-X
Short story in the multi-author collection The Crew and Other Teen Fiction, Heinemann Library, ISBN 0-431-01875-8
Novels for children
Hacker, Doubleday, 1992, ISBN 0-385-40278-3
Operation Gadgetman!, Doubleday, 1993, ISBN 0-385-40337-2
Jack Sweettooth the 73rd, Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN 0-670-85539-1
The Space Stowaway, Ginn, 1995, ISBN 0-602-26393-X
Whizziwig (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Viking Children's Books, 1995, ISBN 0-670-85705-X
Thief!, Doubleday, 1996, ISBN 0-552-52808-0
A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, Doubleday, 1997, ISBN 0-552-52839-0
Pig Heart Boy, Doubleday, 1997, ISBN 0-385-40681-9
Animal Avengers (illustrated by Bill Greenhead and Stik), Mammoth, 1999, ISBN 0-7497-3557-0
Dangerous Reality, Doubleday, 1999, ISBN 0-385-40680-0
Don't Be Afraid (illustrated by Bob Harvey), Ginn, 1999, ISBN 0-602-27549-0
Forbidden Game, Puffin Books, 1999, ISBN 0-14-130321-2
Hostage (illustrated by Derek Brazell), Barrington Stoke, 1999, ISBN 1-902260-12-0
Tell Me No Lies, Macmillan Children's Books, 1999, ISBN 0-333-72645-6
Whizziwig Returns (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Puffin, 1999, ISBN 0-14-130458-8
Dead Gorgeous, Doubleday, 2002, ISBN 0-385-60009-7
The Deadly Dare Mysteries (contents: Deadly Dare, Computer Ghost, Lie Detectives; illustrated by Neil Chapman), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN 0-552-55353-0
Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns (illustrated by Stephen Lee), Corgi Children's, 2005, ISBN 0-440-86657-X
"Contact" in the multi-author collection Out of This World: Stories of Virtual Reality (chosen by Wendy Cooling), Dolphin, 1997, ISBN 1-85881-602-5
Aesop's Fables (retold by Malorie Blackman, illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Scholastic, 1998, ISBN 0-590-54382-2
"Dare to be Different" (illustrated by Jane Ray) in the multi-author collection Dare to be Different, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999, ISBN 0-7475-4021-7
"Peacemaker" in the multi-author collection Peacemaker and Other Stories (illustrated by Peter Richardson and David Hine), Heinemann Educational, 1999, ISBN 0-435-11600-2
Books for new readers
The Betsey Biggalow stories:
Betsey Biggalow the Detective (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN 1-85340-163-3
Betsey Biggalow is Here! (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1992, ISBN 1-85340-172-2
Hurricane Betsey (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1993, ISBN 1-85340-199-4
Magic Betsey (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1994, ISBN 1-85340-237-0
Betsey's Birthday Surprise (illustrated by Lis Toft), Piccadilly Press, 1996, ISBN 0-590-55864-1
The Girl Wonder series:
Girl Wonder and the Terrific Twins (illustrated by Pat Ludlow), Orion Children's Books, 1991, ISBN 0-575-05048-9
Girl Wonder's Winter Adventures (illustrated by Lis Toft), Orion Children's Books, 1992, ISBN 0-575-05383-6
Girl Wonder to the Rescue (illustrated by Lis Toft), Gollancz, 1994, ISBN 0-575-05774-2
The Amazing Adventures of Girl Wonder (illustrated by Lis Toft), Barn Owl Books, 2003, ISBN 1-903015-27-8
The Puzzle Planet adventures:
Peril on Planet Pellia (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN 1-85213-935-8
The Mellion Moon Mystery (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN 1-85213-936-6
The Secret of the Terrible Hand (illustrated by Patrice Aggs), Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN 1-86039-370-5
Quasar Quartz Quest (illustrated by Patrice Aggs) Orchard Books, 1996, ISBN 1-85213-938-2
The Longman Book Project (with translations to Welsh):
Rachel versus Bonecrusher the Mighty, Longman, 1994, ISBN 0-582-12151-5
Rachel and the Difference Thief (illustrated by Kim Harley), Longman, 1994, ISBN 0-582-12152-3
Crazy Crocs (with Alexander McCall Smith and Sally-Ann Lever), Longman, 1994, ISBN 0-582-12208-2
Elaine You're a Brat! (illustrated by Doffy Weir), Orchard Books, 1991, ISBN 1-85213-365-1
My Friend's a Gris-Quok (illustrated by Philip Hopman), Scholastic, 1994, ISBN 0-590-55864-1
Grandma Gertie's Haunted Handbag (illustrated by David Price), Heinemann, 1996, ISBN 0-434-97225-8
Space Race (illustrated by Colin Mier), Corgi Children's, 1997, ISBN 0-552-54542-2
Fangs (illustrated by Tony Blundell), Orchard Books, 1998, ISBN 1-86039-734-4
Snow Dog (illustrated by Sabrina Good), Corgi Children's, 2001, ISBN 0-552-54703-4
The Monster Crisp-Guzzler (illustrated by Saynab Abdalla), Corgi Children's, 2002, ISBN 0-552-54783-2
Sinclair, Wonder Bear (illustrated by Deborah Allwright), Egmont Books, 2003, ISBN 1-4052-0589-X
Picture books
That New Dress (illustrated by Rhian Nest James), Hodder Wayland, 1991, ISBN 0-7500-0442-8
Mrs Spoon's Family (illustrated by Jan McCafferty), Andersen Press, 1995, ISBN 0-86264-582-4
Dizzy's Walk (illustrated by Pamela Venus), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN 1-870516-41-9
Marty Monster (illustrated by Kim Harley), Tamarind, 1999, ISBN 1-870516-42-7
I Want a Cuddle! (illustrated by Joanne Partis), Orchard Books, 2001, ISBN 1-84121-823-5
