Manjeet Mann is an actress and writer. Her novel ''The Crossing'' won the 2022

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Career

Mann started her career as an actress before turning her hand to writing. Mann's first novel, ''Run Rebel'', was released in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received the Shadowers’ Choice Award for Carnegie Medal and the

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for Ages 11–14+; it was shortlisted for and won several other awards. She later adapted the novel into a play, directed by Tessa Walker and produced by Pilot Theatre

Her second novel, ''The Crossing'', was published in 2021. It won the 2021

and was shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Carnegie Medal. Mann later published two children's picture books. The first, ''Small's Big Dream'', illustrated by Amanda Quartey, was published in 2022, and the second, ''Whirly Twirly Me'', also illustrated by Amanda Quartey, was published in summer 2023.

Awards and honours

Children's picture books

* ''Small's Big Dream'', illustrated by

Amanda Quartey Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, “she who must (or is fit to) be loved”. Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much ...

(2022) * ''Whirly Twirly Me'', illustrated by Amanda Quartey (2023)

Young adult novels

* ''Run, Rebel'' (2020) * ''The Crossing'' (2021)

References

External links

Run the World official site

YA Book Prize shortlist: Manjeet Mann talks about The Crossing
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