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Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses uses critical dystopia to challenge us to build a better future

Between 2013 and 2015, Malorie Blackman was Britain’s first black children’s laureate. Her young adult series Noughts and Crosses (2001-21) at once challenges and plays with the prevailing racial ordering of western life and thought.

The Conversation

Noughts & Crosses at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: depressingly relevant

3/5 This adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel feels timely and necessary, although the tone can be patronising

Evening Standard

Visually, it’s dazzling but Noughts & Crosses wilts under the weight of its YA source material

3/5 Stage adaptation struggles to capture the emotional resonance of Malorie Blackman’s searing novel

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Noughts & Crosses review – Malorie Blackman’s thought experiment confronts the audience anew

Callum and Sephy are a modern Romeo and Juliet, forced to grow up fast as they wade through the crushing racial and class structures that pin them in their opposing places

The Guardian - UK

Pig Heart Boy review – lively staging of Malorie Blackman’s stimulating novel

Winsome Pinnock adapts the story of a teenager whose heart transplant causes controversy but the comedy drowns out the issues

The Guardian - UK

Broadway hit Shucked kicks off Drew McOnie’s debut season at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre

US musical will be followed by Rodgers and Hammerstein dream ballets, Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses and Brigadoon

The Guardian - UK

UK English curricula should focus on ‘inclusive and diverse’ stories, author says

Ex-children’s laureate Malorie Blackman says no student should feel English is irrelevant because they do not see themselves reflected in the literature

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Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today’

The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write

The Guardian - UK

Best designs and designers of 2023: ‘A chunk of glossy sexiness’

From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, our panel of experts pick the designs and designers of the year

The Guardian - UK

Best dystopian novels of all time that are must-read classics

Stranger than fiction no longer applies

Evening Standard

Malorie Blackman is celebrated with British Library exhibition

‘Malorie Blackman: The Power of Stories’ at the British Library shines a light on her journey as an author, while touching on social issues represented in her novels

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Malorie Blackman’s career honoured in British Library exhibition

Show dedicated to the prolific children’s and young adult novelist includes 82 rejection letters alongside her children’s laureate medal

The Guardian - UK

They have all earned Britain’s thanks: 20 Black heroes who should be on a postage stamp

To mark Black History Month, we asked an all-star panel to tell us who they would celebrate for their contribution to British society

The Guardian - UK

Inspirational Black British women you should know about

The Black British women who have helped shape history

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The Independent UK

Black History Month: Books black authors want all children to read

Sir Lenny Henry, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and more share their top picks from black authors.

The Guardian - UK

Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’

The YA author on identifying with Armistead Maupin and learning from Malorie Blackman

Evening Standard

Stormzy thinks his legacy will be more about his books than his music

Stormzy and Malorie Blackman were talking at the Hay books festival

The Guardian - UK

Libraries should be ‘ringfenced and protected’, Malorie Blackman says

Former children’s laureate tells Hay festival audience that her local library was essential to her career as a writer

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Bristol Post

Queen Camilla draws her own crown and isn't covered with mud at Bristol school visit

Everywhere you looked there was a household name children's author working with the children

The Guardian - UK

Stormzy’s #Merky Books festival aims to ‘light imaginations’ of young storytellers

Speaker Malorie Blackman says two-day event exists to ‘spark the aspirations’ of those who might not have considered a creative career

The Guardian - UK

Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good ones

The Independent UK

Malorie Blackman and John Agard to headline Stormzy’s #Merky Books literature festival

The rapper launched his publishing imprint in 2018 in partnership with Penguin Random House

The Guardian - UK

Stormzy’s #Merky Books launches literature festival to ‘inspire young creatives’

The grime star said he was ‘proud’ to offer the two-day event headlined by Wretch 32, John Agard and Malorie Blackman

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on declining authors’ pay: an unequal burden

Editorial: A steep slump in average earnings not only affects individuals, but impoverishes literature by dictating which stories get told

Liverpool Echo

Adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses coming to Liverpool

The performance is coming to the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre this November

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