Tabitha Suzuma

Tabitha Sayo Victoria Anne Suzuma is a British writer. She was born in 1975 and lives in London. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. She is known for her novel Forbidden which is based on a taboo relationship between brother and sister.

Biography
Tabitha Suzuma was born in London in 1975 to an English mother and a Japanese father, the eldest of five children. She went to the French Lycée, but stopped attending school at age fourteen. Ten years later, she became a teacher and wrote her first novel, A Note of Madness. She has since written five more novels for young adults. Her fifth novel, Forbidden, is an incestuous love story between a brother and sister. Her most recent novel was published in 2013.

Young Adult novels

 * A Note of Madness (Random House, 2006)
 * From Where I Stand (Random House, 2007)
 * A Voice in the Distance (Random House, 2008)
 * Without Looking Back (Random House, 2009)
 * Forbidden (Random House, 2010)
 * Hurt (Random House, 2013)

Awards

 * 2007 A Note of Madness shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
 * 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Young Minds Book Award
 * 2008 From Where I Stand winner of the Stockport Schools Book Award
 * 2008 From Where I Stand shortlisted for the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Book Award
 * 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
 * 2008 From Where I Stand nominated for the Carnegie Medal
 * 2008 Without Looking Back nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
 * 2009 A Voice in the Distance nominated for the UKLA Children's Book Award
 * 2008 A Voice in the Distance shortlisted for the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year
 * 2009 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award
 * 2010 Without Looking Back shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award
 * 2011 Forbidden nominated for the Carnegie Medal
 * 2011 Proibito/Forbidden winner of the Premio Speciale Cariparma for European Literature 2011
 * 2015 Hurt nominated for the Carnegie Medal