Greg James and Chris Smith have won the Ruth Rendell Literacy Award, which honours an author who has significantly influenced and championed literacy in the UK in the past year. Greg (pictured) graduated from the BA in Drama at UEA in 2007 and received an honorary doctorate in 2015. Throughout his time at UEA he presented shows on the Student Union radio station, Livewire, and joined BBC Radio 1 in the summer of 2007. Greg is the host of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, the loosely cricket-based podcast Tailenders, and Radio 4’s Rewinder. The pair have co-authored the ‘Kid Normal’ series, The Great Dream Robbery (2021), and Super Ghost (2022).