- Source: The Diddakoi
The Diddakoi is a 1972 children's novel by Rumer Godden. Set in England, it features an orphan traveller or Romani girl, seven-year-old Kizzy Lovell, who faces persecution, grief, and loss in a hostile, close-knit, village community. The title is an alternative spelling of "didicoy", the Angloromani term for a person of mixed ancestry.
The Diddakoi won the 1972 Whitbread Award in the Children's Book category, honouring the year's best English-language work by a writer based in Britain or Ireland.
It was dramatised as a television serial, Kizzy (1976), which was produced by Dorothea Brooking for the BBC, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. Decades later it was adapted as a BBC radio drama of the same name, with Nisa Cole in the lead role.
HarperCollins republished the novel in 2002 under the title Gypsy Girl.
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- Daftar penulis bacaan anak
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- The Diddakoi
- Rumer Godden
- Kizzy (TV series)
- Costa Book Awards
- Kizzy
- Gypsy Girl
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books
- Costa Book Award for Children's Book
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- List of children's literature writers
