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Malorie Blackman was born in London in 1962. Her parents are both from Barbados. Her father was a bus driver and her mother worked in a factory. They instilled the importance of education into their five children.

Blackman says, ‘It was the key to open any door.

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And I still believe that’. At school, Blackman told her career advisor she was interested in becoming an English teacher but was told, ‘Black people don’t become teachers’. This is just one example of the racist attitudes Blackman has experienced.

After becoming an author, when she found her books labelled as ‘multicultural’ in bookshops, she moved them to the ‘B’ section of fiction instead. She has used her success as a writer to address the lack of diversity in children’s books, both in her own writing and through her position of Children’s Laureate (2013–2015), and says, ‘There was such a dearth of books that featured black characters – I could either whinge about it or do something about