What she was doing is probably the hardest thing an author can do: writing the ending. I wasn’t saving lives, but I was doing something.” Endgame was a good thing because it felt like I was doing something. But you do what you can, so I focused on my writing. “I was getting government letters saying: ‘Don’t go out.’ I was trying to live as normal a life as possible, knowing full well it was extraordinary circumstances. “It has been a very strange time,” she says. Having been classed as extremely vulnerable due to a health condition, Blackman has been isolating for most of the pandemic – and it is clear that, as she puts it, she “loves a chat”. The last 18 months, however, have been a significant challenge. She felt it even when going into schools to a sea of white faces, where the librarian would say: “But you’re just writing for black children.”
She did when she went into bookshops and found her books hidden away on the “multicultural” shelf she’d simply pull them out and refile them under B. She remained so when she opened her 82nd rejection, before her first book, Not So Stupid!, was published in 1990. McSweeney also thanked Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee “for not listening to me when I said I could play all the girls’ parts” and praised Channel 4, adding “you have my devotion.M alorie Blackman is used to staying hopeful. Joke’s on you.” She also thanked the people of Cork “who supported me despite the fact I’m not Cillian Murphy”, adding “it must be very difficult for you”. “If she could see me now getting a BAFTA for playing a teacher. Responding to the criticism a BBC spokesperson said: "As in previous years, due to the nature of the show it is broadcast with a short delay, and while we always aim to keep the core sentiment of acceptance speeches, edits have to be made due to time constraints."ĭerry Girls, a show about a group of teenagers growing up in the Northern Ireland city in the 1990s, has been praised for offering a new perspective on the Troubles period through the eyes of a group of young girls.Īt the beginning of the speech, McSweeney joked: “As my mother laid dying in Cork, one of the very last things she said to me was, would I not consider retraining as a teacher. Lisa McGee and Siobhan McSweeney with the award for Scripted Comedy, for Derry Girls, at the Bafta Television Awards 2023.
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