Alice Oseman

Alice Oseman is an award-winning author, illustrator, and screenwriter. Alice is the creator of LGBTQ+ YA romance comic Heartstopper, and the writer, creator, and executive producer for the Emmy Award-winning television adaptation for Netflix, produced by See-Saw.

Alice Oseman was born in 1994 in Kent, England. She is studying English at Durham University. Alice can usually be found staring aimlessly at computer screens, questioning the meaninglessness of existence, or doing anything and everything to avoid doing uni work.

Alice's first book, Solitaire, was published when she was nineteen. Her second, Radio Silence, was released in early 2016. She has written another two YA contemporary novels about teenage disasters: I Was Born for This and Loveless (both in 2018).

Alice’s books have won, been shortlisted, or nominated for many awards, including the YA Book Prize, the Inky Awards, the Carnegie Medal, and the Goodreads Choice Awards.

Alice was named the Attitude Person of the Year 2023, and The British Book Awards Illustrator of the Year.

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