![]() ![]() “But every time I tried, the drama hit too close to home, and I wasn’t having fun writing it, I was getting stressed out. It was her husband, who is English, who suggested she write about her family because “they’re just so out there”. She initially considered writing Dial A for Aunties as a YA title, but felt it would be “really disturbing to be moving a teenage boy’s body around”. Sutanto, who did a master’s in creative writing at Oxford, has previously written children’s and young adult novels. ![]() ![]() I needed to have a moment to let it sink in.” He said, ‘I’m literally not’, and then it hit me and I had to have a moment because that’s just too big. And my five-year-old was like, wow, and I said ‘Oh, no, Papa is just exaggerating’. “Yesterday, my husband said to our five-year-old, ‘Mama did an amazing thing, she is certified the funniest female author in an entire country’. “I feel like a lot of women are raised to be very humble, and when people give us compliments, we’re supposed to be like, ‘Oh, no, it’s not that big a deal’,” said Sutanto. Sutanto, who grew up shuttling between Indonesia and Singapore and currently lives in Jakarta, said it was “unreal” to win the £3,000 award, which was set up in 2019 by the comedian and writer Helen Lederer in response to the paucity of female winners of the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. ![]()
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