Heartstopper author Alice Oseman was awarded the Hay Medal for Fiction at Hay Festival today.
Awarded annually since Britain’s Olympic year (2012), and crafted locally by silversmith Christopher Hamilton, the Hay Festival Medals draw inspiration from the original Olympic medal given for poetry.
Other 2023 medals include Mererid Hopwood for Poetry, Salman Rushdie for Prose, and Serhiy Zhadan for Songwriting.
Alice Oseman is an award-winning author, illustrator and screenwriter. She has written four YA contemporary novels about teenage disasters – Solitaire, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This and Loveless – and is the creator of LGBTQ+ YA romance webcomic Heartstopper, reaching an even wider audience when the TV adaptation was released on Netflix last year.
Hay Festival runs until Sunday, June 4.
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