Lubna and Pebble, won the 'Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children's Literature' (2020) and was listed as one of Time Magazine's Best 10 Children's YA and Children’s Books of the Year (2019).
Wendy O'Shea Meddour
Wendy O Shea Meddour
Wendy O'Shea Meddour
Wendy is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. She is specialises in critical theory and contemporary children’s literature, and has established an international reputation for publishing children’s books that promote child wellbeing.
Since her debut. A Hen in the Wardrobe, was shortlisted for the ‘Branford Boase Outstanding First Novel’ Award (2012), she has gone on to publish over twenty children’s books (and been translated into nineteen languages).
Books
Books include the best-selling Wendy Quill series, The Secret Railway series, How the Library (not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel and Dottie Blanket and the Hilltop.
One of Wendy’s latest picture books, Lubna and Pebble, won the 'Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children's Literature' (2020) and was listed as one of Time Magazine's Best 10 Children's YA and Children’s Books of the Year (2019). This has been followed by Tibble and Grandpa, listed as a Notable and Worthy Book by the American Library Association, shortlisted for the United Kingdom Literary Association Awards and nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal (2021).
Forthcoming titles include: Howard the Average Gecko, Not in that Dress, Princess!, Peggy the Always Sorry Pigeon and Tisha and the Blossom, all to be published by Oxford University Press.
Other info
Wendy has an AHRC funded MA and PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship on ‘The Construction of Muslims in Contemporary British Fiction’ at Oxford University, where she taught English Literature for eight years. Alongside supervising PhD students with interests in children’s literature, postcolonial theory, gender issues, and orientalism, Wendy works with non-profit organisations such as Empathy Lab and Seven Stories to foster child wellbeing. Regularly appearing at international literary festivals, Wendy also organises and hosts events that promote inclusivity, such as the Refugee Series at WOMAD festival and Being Brilliant: BAME children’s writers at the University of Exeter.
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