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Carl Anka

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Carl Anka is a best-selling and award-winning children’s author as well as a journalist and broadcaster. 

You Are a Champion, which he co-wrote with Marcus Rashford, has sold more than 300,000 copies in the UK and won Best Overall Book in the 2022 British Book Awards.

Carl has written for The Athletic, BBC,  and The Guardian, among other print and online publications.


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