For The Black Flamingo, Atta was one of two winners of the Stonewall Book Award 2020 in the Children's and Young Adults category. Only on the Weekends By Dean Atta Published by Hachette Children’s Group Nearly three years since the success of his debut novel, The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta’s second Young Adult (YA) story, Only on the Weekends has arrived.
In 2019 Atta's verse novel, The Black Flamingo, was published by Hachette UK. In 2018, Atta served as a judge for the BBC Young Writers Award. His poetry, which often deals with questions of identity and social justice, has been featured on BBC Radio 4, and he has been commissioned to write for museums and galleries including the Keats House Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, London, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. must-read queer love story for fans of Sarah Crossan and Sex Education, written in verse by Dean Atta.
īorn to a Greek mother and Jamaican father, he earned a BA degree (2006) in Philosophy and English from the University of Sussex, where he was president of the African Caribbean Society. Order a Only on the Weekends today from WHSmith. In 2012, his poem "I Am Nobody's Nigger", written in response to the use of the racial slur by the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, achieved much social media coverage, and he was profiled in The Guardian.
He has been listed by The Independent newspaper as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in the United Kingdom. Dean Atta Only on the Weekends Paperback by Dean Atta (Author) 36 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 6.65 15 Used from 5.70 26 New from 6.65 Paperback 11.99 1 New from 11.99 Audio CD 24.04 2 Used from 25.23 6 New from 20. Dean Atta is a British poet of Greek Cypriot and Caribbean descent.
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