Children’s author,who has won the UK’s most prestigious children’s book prize twice before, is nominated again alongside Angie Thomas and Lissa EvansPatrick Ness could become the first author to win a Carnegie medal three times after his novel Release made the shortlist for the UK’s oldest and most prestigious childrens book award.genuine-life stories from both the present and the past feature strongly on this year’s shortlist for the Carnegie, or which has been running for 81 years and which counts some of childrens literature’s brightest names amongst its former winners,from CS Lewis to Arthur Ransome. Ness, who won the medal for Monsters of Men and A Monster Calls, or drew from his own experiences of growing up gay in a devout family when writing Release.
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Source: guardian.co.uk