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Alice Oseman.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom · b. 1994

Alice Oseman: British creator of Heartstopper — the YA graphic-novel series (and companion prose novels) about young queer love and friendship, plus a defining Netflix adaptation.

Alice Oseman is a British author-illustrator born in 1994, best known as the creator of Heartstopper, the YA graphic-novel series (originally published as a webcomic from 2016, then collected by Hachette) about two British schoolboys, Charlie Nick, falling in love, navigating coming out, anxiety, sexuality and supportive friendship. Heartstopper has become one of the defining UK YA graphic-novel properties of the last decade, with a hugely successful Netflix live-action adaptation. Oseman also writes companion prose novels (Solitaire, Nick and Charlie, Loveless, Radio Silence) which together form an interconnected fictional universe. Her voice is direct, emotionally honest, generous about young queer experience. A core YA author for ages 12+.