First edition
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| Author | Rumer Godden |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Creina Glegg[1] |
| Genre | Children's novel Domestic fiction[2] |
| Publisher | Macmillan (UK) Viking (US) |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 140 |
| ISBN | 0-333-13848-1 |
| LC Class | PZ7.G54 Di[1] PZ3.G5422 Di3[2] |
The Diddakoi is a 1972 children's novelbyRumer Godden. Set in England, it features an orphan traveller or Romani girl,[1] seven-year-old Kizzy Lovell, who faces persecution, grief, and loss[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
HarperCollins republished the novel in 2002 under the title Gypsy Girl.[6]
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