Malorie Blackman: ‘I didn’t read a book that featured a black protagonist until I was 21’ One of Britain’s most celebrated storytellers, whose YA novel Noughts and Crosses was adapted for ...

Malorie Blackman was born in Merton, London, in February 1962 to Barbadian parents who were part of the Windrush generation. She studied computer science at Thames Polytechnic and became a systems ...

Malorie Blackman: More ‘diverse’ texts should be included in English curriculum The British author said no child should feel that studying English at school is irrelevant because ‘they never ...

Author Malorie Blackman says more diverse texts should be included in the English literature curriculum (Dominic Lipinski/PA) PA Archive. Eleanor Busby. 11 September 2024.

More “inclusive and diverse” contemporary stories should be included in the English literature curriculum, author Malorie Blackman has said. Blackman, author of the Noughts And Crosses series ...