FREE Primary Schools Event: Patrice Lawrence
Wed 21 May 2025 | 10:30am - 12:00pm
FREE Primary Schools Event: Patrice Lawrence
An invitation for year 5 pupils to come and meet Patrice Lawrence as she introduces her latest book People Like Stars and explores themes of family and friendship.
Patrice Lawrence is passionate about social justice and the rights of children, families and adults. Her books have been shortlisted for and won major prizes including the YA Prize for Orange Boy, the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction, the Jhalak Prize for Children and Young People and the Little Rebels Children’s Award. She has been awarded an MBE for Literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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With thanks to The Cambridge Union
Venue: Cambridge Union
Duration: 2 hours
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Author Biography
About the author: Patrice Lawrence was born in Brighton and brought up in an Italian-Trinidadian household in Sussex. Her first novel Orangeboy was one of the most talked-about YA books of 2016. It was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Award and won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Older Fiction and the Bookseller YA Book Prize. She has written books for children of all ages from picture books to young adults. Patrice has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Award and won a number of awards including the Crime Fest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (twice), the Jhalak Children’s and Young Adult Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour and the Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction. Patrice has been awarded the MBE for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
