Fidan Meikle

Fidan Meikle is a multi-award-winning Azerbaijani-British writer, linguist and translator. Her debut middle-grade novel, My Name Is Samim, won the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize, the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Children’s Book Award, several regional awards and was included in the 2026 Read for Empathy Collection. My Name Is Samim and the companion novel, My Name Is Zayn, are inspired by the real-life stories of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK. Fidan lives in West Lothian, Scotland.