SF SAID - Tyger

SF Said is an award-winning author.  He was born in Lebanon in 1967, but has lived in London since he was 2 years old. He wrote his first novel, Varjak Paw (2003), while working as a speechwriter for the Crown Prince of Jordan.  Varjak Paw won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Children's Literature, and was was included in BookTrust's list of the 100 Best Children's Books From The Last 100 Years. It has been translated into 14 languages.  The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw (2005), won the BBC's Blue Peter Book Of The Year, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and won the Leicester Teenage Book Of The Year.   SF's third novel, Phoenix (2013), is an epic space adventure for readers of 9 and up. It was chosen as an IBBY Honour List Book for the UK; shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award; nominated for both the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal; and won both the Warwickshire Secondary Schools Book Of The Year Award and the Haringey Children's Book Award.  His fourth book, Tyger, was published by David Fickling Books in October 2022.  SF Said is a Fellow of Royal Society Of Literature, and is active in the wider world of literature and the arts.  He has judged the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book Awards (now the Costa Book Awards) and the Amnesty CILIP Honour.