Louise Rennison
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Winners announced for Louise Rennison Award 2020
The winners of the Louise Rennison National Funny Award have been revealed. The competition aims to encourage 11 to 18 year-olds to create original comedy material.
British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2020Comics in Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography
Caroline Aherne, Victoria Wood and Ronnie Corbett and have been added to a prestigious and definitive list of the greatest ever Britons.
Chortle, 9th January 2020A life primer that means so much to millennials
In 2008, millennials were just beginning to discover the joys and horrors of the opposite sex. This coming-of-age classic gave us a few key lessons.
Brigid Harrison-Draper, The Guardian, 25th July 2018Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha turns her hand to a coming-of-age movie adapted from the novels by Louise Rennison. Revealing the same wit and insight that Chadha brought to Bend It, the story centres on plain 14-year-old Georgia (Georgia Groome), who makes it her mission to snog one of two "fit" twins newly arrived at her school. In the background her parents' marriage is not going well, but Georgia is nothing if not sharp and with a tight-knit group of friends fast learns to cope with the hassles and misfortunes of teenage life.
Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 19th July 2009