Number of young adult writers of colour doubles to almost 20%

Research shows improvement in diversity of YA writers but comes with warning about domination by US authors

The proportion of authors of colour writing for young adults in the UK has more than doubled in the last two years.

Research from University College London associate professor Melanie Ramdarshan Bold has found that 19.6% of YA authors published in the UK in 2019 were people of colour, compared with 7.1% in 2017 and 13.25% in 2018.

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