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Jason Wallace (born 1969) is an author living in South West London. [1] He is the author of Out of Shadows , the 2010 Costa Children's Book of the Year.
Wallace was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West England. [2] He is a descendant of Lord George Sanger, a world-famous Victorian circus owner, an International English cricketer, and he is also loosely related (through a marriage in the family tree) to J.R.R. Tolkien. [1] Jason lived in London, England in his younger years with his family before residing and attending Peterhouse Boys' School, a boarding school in 1983 in Zimbabwe. The family emigrated after his mother remarried. [1] [3] At the age of seventeen, he aspired for a career as an author and, although determined, he knew it would be a challenging ambition.
He was a fan of comic books such as The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix and authors including Dr.Seuss and Richard Scarry. [2] In his childhood, among some of his favorite books were James and the Giant Peach and Danny the Champion of the World. In his adolescent and adult life, he was a fan of Stephen King and James Herbert.
His experiences in a Zimbabwean boarding school following the Zimbabwe War of Liberation / Rhodesian Bush War laid the building blocks of his first,Costa Children's Book Award winning novel Out of Shadows . [1] [4]
Jason Wallace had a challenging journey to becoming a published author. Jason Wallace stated that "getting published didn't happen overnight, and writing had to become "the other job" for which I didn't get paid while life continued." [2] Wallace says he has "always had a fertile imagination, but as far as I'm concerned, it's the school I need to thank for inadvertently nurturing my will to write through strong discipline". [2]
Out of Shadows was published on January 28, 2010 by Andersen Press. [5] The novel has received extensive recognition (international rights currently sold to the USA, Norway, Turkey, Brazil and France) and has established him as a successful published author[ citation needed ].
Out of Shadows took one year and six months to complete. While he attended a boarding school in Zimbabwe not too long after the Rhodesian Bush War/Zimbabwean War of Liberation ended, [2] Jason Wallace wanted to write a story of what he had seen or experienced. The political scene in Zimbabwe was declining and troubled. This inspired Jason Wallace to begin writing fictional stories of what he was encountering. Though the characters in the novel are not real, they served to demonstrate the attitudes or personalities "a very few people" held. Wallace notes that he "came up with the idea of "What if...?" [2] and took it from there" when he was writing Out of Shadows.
Wallace focused on several themes in the novel Out of Shadows such as bullying, racism, politics and morality. [6] The book is written for both adults and a younger audience of 13+. [6]
Jason Wallace's second novel, Encounters, was published on May 4, 2017 by Andersen Press. The novel is also set in Zimbabwe, inspired by true events in the 1990s. [7]
Wallace currently resides in South West London, England. [1] [3]
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