Kit de Waal

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kit de Waal
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 26, 1960(1960-07-26)
Age	64
Birthplace	Birmingham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Leo

Kit de Waal Biography

Kit de Waal is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 26, 1960 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.

Her debut novel, My Name Is Leon, about a mixed-race nine-year-old boy, is set against the backdrop of the 1981 Handsworth riots and was published in 2016 by Viking (Penguin Random House) after a six-way auction between publishers. It drew on her personal and professional experience of foster care and the adoption system:

She also writes short stories and flash fiction, and among her previous other awards are the Bath Short Story Award 2014, the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2014 and 2015 and the SI Leeds Literary Prize Reader’s Choice in 2014. As well as being published in anthologies, her work has been broadcast on radio, including her story “Adrift at the Athena”, which was commissioned for the anthology A Midlands Odyssey by Nine Arches Press, and “The Beautiful Thing” – “about emigration, backstory and new beginnings” – was read on BBC Radio 4 by Burt Caesar.

Kit de Waal Net Worth

Kit de Waal is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kit de Waal 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mandy Theresa O’Loughlin (born 26 July 1960), known professionally as Kit de Waal, is a British/Irish writer. Her debut novel, My Name Is Leon, was published by Penguin Books in June 2016. After securing the publishing deal with Penguin, De Waal used some of her advance to set up the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Fellowship to help improve working-class representation in the arts. The audiobook version of My Name is Leon is voiced by Sir Lenny Henry. De Waal has also published several short stories.

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Who is Kit de Waal Dating?

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I was brought up like that, I’m mixed race, I have adopted children, I’ve trained social workers. In 1981 I was living in Handsworth in Birmingham, where the riots were happening at the end of my road.

Facts & Trivia

Koichi Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kit de Waal celebrates birthday on July 26 of every year.

Is Kit de Waal related to Edmund?

His brother Edmund is the author of the bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes; his mother is the Benedictine spiritual guru Esther de Waal.

Where was Kit de Waal born?

Birmingham, United Kingdom

What happens in my name is Leon?

Set during the race riots of the 1980s, My Name Is Leon tells the story of Leon, a half-black nine-year-old boy who struggles to make sense of his changing world. After his mother suffers a mental breakdown, Leon and his baby brother, Jake, are sent into foster care.

How does my name is Leon end?

The book ends seeing Leon settled, happy and preparing to plant new seeds and sow new beginnings -both literally and metaphorically. The ending that Leon deserves and all the readers want.

Does my name is Leon have a happy ending?

Leon and Jake are lucky to meet Maureen, an experienced and loving foster parent but even the ultimately uplifting conclusion niggled me because I knew that it was not the ending that most children going through the care system receive. There is not enough love out there to go round and too many are forgotten.