Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954) is a British writer of children's fiction. He became famous in 1996 with the publication of Junk, about heroin-addicted teenagers on the streets of Bristol. In Britain, Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author.

Style Polyphony is a narrative technique used in many of his best known novels.

Works Novels The Cry of the Wolf (Andersen Press, 1990) An Angel for May (Andersen, 1992) Burning Issy (Andersen, 1992) The Baby and Fly Pie (Andersen, 1993) Loving April (Andersen, 1995) The Earth Giant (Andersen, 1995) Junk (Andersen, 1996), also Smack in the U.S. —winner of the Carnegie Medal

Television work

Autumn 2009 – The Well – BBC Switch/Lime Pictures