Ouida sebestyen wikipedia

  • Ouida Sebestyen.
  • Ouida Sebestyen, nee Dockery, was born February 13, 1924, in Vernon, TX. She married Adam Sebestyen in 1960 and had one son.
  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Winner.

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    National Book Award for ung People's Literature

    Annual literary award in the United States

    National Book Award for Young People's Literature
    Awarded forOutstanding work of Young People's Literature bygd U.S. citizens.
    LocationNew York City
    Reward(s)$10,000 USD (winner)
    $1,000 USD (finalists)
    First award1967–1983, 1996
    WebsiteNational Book Foundation

    The National Book Award for Young People's Literature fryst vatten one of five annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work bygd US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".[1] The judging panel are fem "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".[2]

    The category ung People's Literature was established in 1996. From 1969 to 1983, prior to the Foundation, there were some "Children's" categories.[3]

    The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in

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    The Girl in the Box

    February 22, 2014
    I was twelve years old the first time I read The Girl in the Box, by Ouida Sebestyen. More than two decades later, the story still haunted me. The magic of Amazon delivered the book to me in paperback glory. I may have aged, but the girl on the cover with her high-top sneaks was exactly as I remembered her: long fingers poised over a typewriter, crouched on the ground, and surrounded by impenetrable darkness.

    I opened the book.

    I was unprepared for the intensity of the experience. As much as the story put me on edge when I was a close in age to the protagonist, Jackie, the tale was even more terrifying for me as an adult. Sebestyen layers Jackie's emotions the way a fine chef layers a complexity of spices into a dish. You taste the fear and confusion first; it is palpable and realistic. Then comes a blast of fury that is so pure as to be physically biting. Hunger, weakness, bouts of insane battering of the walls follow, but most of that is gl

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    THE GIRL IN THE BOX

    Deliberately evoking Cormier's I Am the Cheese in a portrait of a teen-ager trapped by mysterious circumstances--which are only partly revealed in a nonsequential narrative--Sebestyen (Far from Home) has written an extraordinary thriller. Jackie is confined in a lightless concrete box where she was thrust by an unknown man who left her with food, water, and the typewriter she happened to be carrying. In the letters she touch-types to the police, her parents, her English teacher, and her friends Zach and April, she gradually reveals herself: a well-loved child of parents in modest circumstances, a gifted writer but an indifferent student, April's loyal friend since childhood--devastated to discover that April and new friend Zach have for months had a private relationship beyond their close trio, and have kept it from her. And--though Jackie is never set physically free in these pages; the assailant remains a mystery; and the conclusion may be read as a tragedy--S

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