year:
2020
genre:
non-fiction, poetry, 480 p.
publisher:
Querido
illustrator:
Floor de Goede
illustrator:
Floor de Goede
age:
14+ and adults
awards:
Rainbowbook of the year 2021
Nomination for the Çavaria Media Award 2020
Honour List IBBY 2022
Silver Slate 2021
Silver Pencil 2021 (for the illustrations)
For this big book I interviewed twenty one young people (between 15 and 23 years old). They talked frankly about all the things that glow in their lives: love, anger ambition. Being extremely diverse, they all have one thing in common: their sexuality or their gender differs from the majority. To every interview I wrote a poem, and Floor de Goede drew a portrait of each interviewee. At the end of the book there's a chapter that reveils what happened after the interviews. The beautiful book design is by Roald Triebels.
This book also marks the start of a whole new series with novels with queer main characters: Querido's imprint Querido Glow.
