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Based on reports, Sarawakian author Nadia Mikail has won the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize with her debut novel entitled The Cats We Meet Along the Way.
Nadia, from Kuching, won the older readers category as well as the overall prize, along with £5,000 (RM27,236).
The book tells the story of a family's trip across Malaysia during the impending end of the world.
Nadia wrote the novel when she was away from her family members during the Covid-19 pandemic, and she used said struggle as inspiration.
"The book is a sort of a worst-case scenario situation, like what would happen if the apocalypse was about to happen, and I was away from my loved ones", she said.
According to Waterstones' head of children's, the book is a phenomenal debut and Nadia's writing sparkles in the growing market for older readers.
A novel of truthful conversations and silences, hope, dreams as well as stories, all set against an eventful road trip post-apocalypse, it is a must-read indeed.
Congratulations to young writer!
