S. F. Said

SF Said is an award-winning author. His first book, VARJAK PAW, won the Smarties Prize for Children's Literature. THE OUTLAW VARJAK PAW won the BBC Blue Peter Book Of The Year. His third book, PHOENIX, was chosen to represent the UK on the IBBY International Honour Book List, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. He has described his new book TYGER as his "best book so far"; it won the Children's Fiction Book Of The Year at the British Book Awards, Children's Book Of The Year (Older Fiction) at The Week Junior Book Awards, and was Foyles Children's Book Of The Year and Waterstones Children's Book Of The Month. Like his other books, it is illustrated by Dave McKean, and published by David Fickling Books. SF Said has written widely on children's and young adult literature for both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Find out more about him on his website, or follow him on Twitter and Instagram!