Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Melvin Burgess has been writing fiction for young people since his first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. His 1996 novel Junk kick-started the YA genre and was acclaimed at home and abroad. Junk was also included in the top ten best Carnegie winners ever. He has also won the Guardian Children’s Book of the Year and the LA Times YA Book of the Year Award.
His first book for adults, Loki, is out in November 2022.
Image credit Charlotte Graham.
