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M2 Best Books, Nov 19, 2008
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The 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize of GBP2,500, along with a trophy, has been presented to Patrick Ness for his sci-fi fantasy, The Knife of Never Letting Go, at a ceremony in London on 18 November.
The annual prize was launched in 2003 to honour the best author of contemporary fiction for teenagers and is judged by a mixed panel of adults and teenagers. This year's panel was chaired by journalist and author Amanda Craig, whose fellow judges were librarian Emma Sherriff, author Julia Bell and children's books specialist John McLay, along with five young people.
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The other authors short-listed for the prize were: Sally Gardner for The Red Necklace; Anthony Horowitz for Snakehead; Tanya Landman for Apache; Anthony McGowan for The Knife That Killed Me; and Kate Thompson for Creature of the Night.
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