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The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004 Winner 12th October 2004
Meg Rosoff has won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2004 for her critically acclaimed debut novel How I Live Now. Contrasting the extremes of existence in what is both a utopia and a dystopia, How I Live Now is a story of growing up, with a powerful love affair between two cousins, Daisy and Edmund, at its heart.
On winning the prize Meg Rosoff said, 'I'm obviously thrilled and grateful to be chosen for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - especially as it means being grouped in the company of writers I admire so very much.' Guardian Prize judge Mark Haddon said of the book, 'That rare, rare thing, a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice. After five pages I knew that she could persuade me to believe almost anything.'
The Winner

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Puffin)

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More information about last year's winner can be found on the Guardian web site.

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