Manjeet Mann

Manjeet Mann is an actress and writer. Her novel The Crossing won the 2022 Costa Book Award for Children's Book.

Early life Mann grew up in a working class family in Walsall. She studied performing arts at Coventry University.

Career Mann started her career as an actress before turning her hand to writing.

Mann's first novel, Run Rebel, was released in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and received the Shadowers’ Choice Award for Carnegie Medal and the UKLA Book Award for Ages 11–14+; it was shortlisted for and won several other awards. She later adapted the novel into a play, directed by Tessa Walker and produced by Pilot Theatre. The play was nominated for two 2025 Offies for: Creation for Mann and receiving Best Production. Her second novel, The Crossing, was published in 2021. It won the 2021 Costa Book Award for Children's Book and was shortlisted for numerous other awards including the Carnegie Medal.

Mann later published two children's picture books. The first, Small's Big Dream, illustrated by Amanda Quartey, was published in 2022, and the second, Whirly Twirly Me, also illustrated by Amanda Quartey, was published in summer 2023.

Personal life Mann lives in Edinburgh with her partner Joseph Coelho.

Awards and honours Offie nomination for ProductionFinalist Children's picture books

Small's Big Dream, illustrated by Amanda Quartey (2022) Whirly Twirly Me, illustrated by Amanda Quartey (2023) Magic, Magic, Everywhere, illustrated by Noopur Thakur (2024)

Young adult novels

Run, Rebel (2020) The Crossing (2021) Roar (2025)