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Publication date 1972 ISBN 0-333-13848-1 Page count 140 | 4.1/5 Goodreads Pages 140 Originally published 1972 Genre Children's literature Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publishers Macmillan Publishers (UK), Viking Press (US) Similar Works by Rumer Godden, Children's literature, Classical Studies books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Diddakoi is a 1972 novel for children by Rumer Godden. It won the 1972 Whitbread Award in the Children's Book category. It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. The title is an alternative spelling of the term "didicoy".
It was dramatised as a television serial, Kizzy (1976), which was produced by Dorothea Brooking for the BBC, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. The novel has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl, and has been adapted as a BBC radio drama of the same name. This adaptation features Nisa Cole.
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