Abdel-Fattah wins Kathleen Mitchell Award

13 May 2008 Books+Publishing

Only six books were entered in this year's $7500 Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, which was won by Randa Abdel-Fattah for Ten Things I Hate about Me (Pan). The novel ‘tackled a number of tricky issues--teenage sexuality, family relations, politics and cultural identity--in an entertaining and stimulating way,' said judges...