Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas. He was an innovative and unusual storyteller, who always treated his audience with huge respect.” A gentle and helpful friend and a fearless writer.Īnd writer Sally Nicholls tweeted, “The death of Marcus Sedgwick is a great loss to children’s fiction and YA.

I’m so sad to hear of the death of Marcus Sedgwick. With its strong sense of time and place and the magic of a. A gentle and helpful friend and a fearless writer.” Told in part by the boy, Sigurd, himself, it is a dark and dangerous story of conflict and betrayal. On Twitter, author David Almond wrote, “I’m so sad to hear of the death of Marcus Sedgwick. Sedgwick was remembered by his admirers on social media. If you’re writing books and want to push boundaries a little bit, then that's a very good thing.” The dark horse by Marcus Sedgwick, 2002, Orion Children's edition, in English. “More open to strange and wonderful ideas. “In many ways younger readers are more open minded than older ones,” he said. In a 2014 interview with BookPage, Sedgwick said he appreciated the “freedom” that writing for young readers afforded him.

Printz Award for books written for teenage readers. He would go on to be named a finalist for the Carnegie Medal several times, for books including My Swordhand Is Singing, Revolver, White Crow, and Midwinterblood, which won the American Library Association’s Michael L. He followed that up the next year with The Dark Horse, which earned him a place on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal, the prestigious British award for children’s literature. Sedgwick, a native of England, worked in bookselling and publishing before making his literary debut in 2000 with the children’s novel Floodland. Marcus Sedgwick, whose books for children and young adults drew critical praise and a devoted following, died at 54, the Guardian reports.

The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick