Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.
Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021.
Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was publi
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Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards and won the McIllvanney Prize.
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Pat O'Shea (22 January 1931 – 3 May 2007), was an award-winning and best-selling children's fiction writer. She was born in Galway and was the youngest of 5 children. Her first novel was the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan, which took 13 years to complete. It was finally published in 1985 by Oxford University Press, translated into five languages, and is still considered among the best classic children's books.
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Ze studeerde aan twee kunstacademies en een schrijversschool.
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In 2007 verscheen haar eerste roman: Tot alles gezegd is. In 2011 lag de YA-roman Vogel in de winkels, waarmee je de Jonge Jury Debuutprijs in de wacht sleepte. In 2013 verscheen het veelgeprezen Sammie en opa. Een ontroerend voorleesboek voor 7 jaar en ouder. Een nieuw jeugdboek, genaamd Hotel Humus, is in de maak. -
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Marco Kunst (Vlissingen, 1966)
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schrijft fantastische (maar ook waargebeurde) verhalen in alle genres voor kinderen en jongeren. Onlangs verscheen 'De macht van Algas' een toekomstverhaal dat zich op Walcheren afspeelt in de tijd dat de zeespiegel gestegen is. Eerder verschenen 'Offline', 'Patroon', 'Het touw en de waarheid' en 'Het verlangen van de prins'.
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Luīze Pastore
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Awards and Recognitions:
2022, Laimes bērni - International Baltic Sea Region Jānis Baltvilks Award in Children's Literature
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2018, London Book Fair, official author, Latvian delegation
2017, Pastariņš prize for the Art Detectives series
2016, "The Invisible Man" (from The Art Detectives series) selected for "The White Raven" 2016 list
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Autore atzīst: “Nedaudz zināšanu un mazliet fantāzijas ļāva uzburt stāstu. Tā pamatā ir neparedzētu notikumu atklāšana, jo arī mani, gluži kā vienu no grāmatas galvenajiem negatīvajiem varoņiem, aizrauj mīklas un prāta mežģi, tomēr šī, par laimi, ir vienīgā līdzība.”
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"Sprinkling a tiny bit of happiness all over the planet"
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Jenny McLachlan
I have always loved reading and I studied English at university just so that I could read a bit more. Next I found my way into secondary teaching and discovered that I loved it too: I got to read more books, show off and hang out with very funny teenagers. What a great job!
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After art college and film school, Peter worked as an animator on commercials, pop videos, and two BAFTA-winning children’s TV shows, and wrote and directed several successful short films.
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I published my debut novel, "Gutenberg's Apprentice" in 2014 and have since written and published award-winning short stories. My new novel, "The Shining -
Emma Carroll
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After years of teaching English to secondary school students, Emma now writes full time. She graduated with distinction from Bath Spa University’s MA in Writing For Young People. In another life Emma wishes she’d written ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and three terriers. -
Sufiya Ahmed
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Fiona MacKenzie
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Ulf Stark
Ulf Gottfrid Stark was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen).
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Stark collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp.
From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books Svenska barnboksakademin. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize.
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Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
I am an illustrator and a writer. I create picturebooks for kids and write novels – middle grade and YA. I love to travel but, so far, my books have travelled more than me - they've been translated into many languages, including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Finish.
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I'm Irish, a Dubliner, born, bred and buttered. I run on coffee and chocolate. My most recent novel, On Midnight Beach, is a YA reimagining of the legend of Cúchulainn, and it has been shortlisted for several awards, including the 2021 Carnegie Medal. -
Piers Paul Read
British novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history). Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, New York (1980). From 1992-7 he was Chairman of the Catholic Writers' Guild. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).
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His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the -
Onjali Q. Raúf
Onjali Q. Rauf is the founder of Making Herstory, an organisation mobilising men, women and children from all walks of life to tackle the abuse and trafficking of women and girls in the UK and beyond. In her spare time she delivers emergency aid convoys for refugee families surviving in Calais and Dunkirk, and supports interfaith projects.
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Costanza Casati was born in Texas and grew up in a village in Northern Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek, and Ancient Greek literature, under one of the country’s most rigorous academic programmes. She is a graduate of the Warwick Writing MA in the UK, and has worked as a screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, Clytemnestra, has sold into 18 territories worldwide, was the winner of the Glass Bell Award, an Indie Next Pick and a nominee for Best Fantasy in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Babylonia, her second novel, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
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Alexander Armstrong
An English actor, television and radio presenter, and singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.
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Amy Jeffs
Amy Jeffs is an art historian specialising in the Middle Ages. In 2019, she gained a PhD in Art History from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having studied for earlier degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Cambridge. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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During her PhD Amy co-convened a project researching medieval badges and pilgrim souvenirs at the British Museum. She then worked in the British Library's department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts.
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Patrick Barlow
Patrick Barlow is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the founder, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, which has performed on stage, on television and on radio. Barlow is the scriptwriter, as well as lead performer, in many National Theatre of Brent productions, in particular All the World's a Globe (1987), Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (1995) and The Arts and How They Was Done (2007). In non-Theatre of Brent performances, he wrote and played in the 4-part situation comedy for radio called The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience which ran for four weeks from January 1999.
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Cathryn Constable
Cathryn Constable read Theology at Cambridge University. She then worked at Vogue, W, Elle Decoration, Elle and The Independent.
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She also wrote for a number of publications including Tatler, and The Sunday Times, before turning her hand to writing for children.
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Kadri Hinrikus
Kadri Hinrikus on sündinud 22. juunil 1970. aastal.
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Ta on lõpetanud Tallinna Pedagoogikaülikooli näitejuhtimise erialal.
Teletööd alustas ta uudistetoimetajana ja täna on ta Eesti Rahvusringhäälingu põhisaates „Aktuaalne Kaamera” uudisteankur. Kadri Hinrikus on juhtinud ka muid telesaateid (Tähelaev, Eesti Teater 100) ning teeb regulaarset kaastööd keskkonnasaatele „Osoon”.
Ta on avaldanud kaks (auto)biograafilist raamatut „Miia ja Friida” (2008) ja „Kui emad olid väikesed” (2009) ning metsaelust pajatava „Põmmu, Podsu ja teised sõbrad” (2010). Kadri Hinrikuse värskeim raamat „Et head haldjad sind hoiaksid” (2012) on realistlik lasteraamat, millel pole memuaristlikku tausta. -
Fleur Hitchcock
Born in Chobham, by an airfield, and raised in Winchester on the banks of the River Itchen, Fleur Hitchcock grew up as the youngest child of three. When she was eight, she wrote a story about an alien and a jelly. It was called THE ALIEN AND THE JELLY and filled four exercise books. She grew up a little, went away to school near Farnham, studied English in Wales, and, for the next twenty years, sold Applied Art in the city of Bath. When her younger child was seven, she embarked on the Writing for Young People MA at Bath Spa and graduated with a distinction. Now living outside Bath, between parenting and writing, Fleur Hitchcock works with her husband (a toy maker), looks after other people's gardens and grows vegetables.
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Luīze Pastore
Luīze Pastore is a Latvian writer of children's literature. She is the author of over 15 prose books for children.
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Awards and Recognitions:
2022, Laimes bērni - International Baltic Sea Region Jānis Baltvilks Award in Children's Literature
2022, Laimes bērni - 2022 BolognaRagazzi Award "New Horizons"
2018, Dog Town - #BEST NEW KIDS BOOKS 2018 Guardian pick
2018, London Book Fair, official author, Latvian delegation
2017, Pastariņš prize for the Art Detectives series
2016, "The Invisible Man" (from The Art Detectives series) selected for "The White Raven" 2016 list
2016, Annual Latvian Literature Award as the Best Children's Book for the Art Detectives series
2016, Latvian Children's Jury Chocolate Award for the Art Detectives series
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Jan Eliasberg
Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning writer/director with an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, where she was mentored by Charles Baxter, Joan Silber and Antonya Nelson. HANNAH'S WAR is her debut novel -- HANNAH'S WAR will be published by Little, Brown on March 3, 2020.
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Eliasberg has a notable career as a screenwriter, writing films and television series driven by strong female leads. She wrote W.A.S.P. about the Women Air Service Pilots in WWII for Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz at FOX. Mi Corazon was written for Universal, with Jennifer Lopez attached to star. She wrote Heart ‘N Soul, a “hip hop Pygmalion” for Warner Brothers, and The Gemcutter, a YA historic -
Žanete Lazdovska
Žanete Lazdovska ikdienā profesionāli darbojas jurisprudences jomā, savukārt mājās, vērojot savu bērnu intereses, viņa bieži vien sastopas ar to, cik ļoti pusaudžus saista mistiski atgadījumi un atjautības uzdevumi.
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Autore atzīst: “Nedaudz zināšanu un mazliet fantāzijas ļāva uzburt stāstu. Tā pamatā ir neparedzētu notikumu atklāšana, jo arī mani, gluži kā vienu no grāmatas galvenajiem negatīvajiem varoņiem, aizrauj mīklas un prāta mežģi, tomēr šī, par laimi, ir vienīgā līdzība.”
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Robert Dinsdale
Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire and currently lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
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He is the author of PARIS BY STARLIGHT, THE TOYMAKERS, GINGERBREAD, LITTLE EXILES and THE HARROWING -
Carolyn Kirby
Carolyn Kirby's debut novel The Conviction of Cora Burns was chosen for awards by the Historical Writers Association and by the Specsavers/Crimefest debut crime fiction prize. Carolyn's second novel When We Fall was one of The Times' top 20 historical novels of 2020.
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Originally from the northeast of England, Carolyn studied history at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and she is now on the organising committee for the annual St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend. To find out more, go to www.carolynkirby.com -
Sarah Driver
Sarah Driver was born on the Sussex coast and started writing as a small child. She graduated with distinction from the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People in 2015, after winning the 2014 United Agents prize for ‘most promising writer’. She is also a nurse and midwife, having trained at the Florence Nightingale School at King's College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Dreamstalkers: The Night Train is releasing on February 1st 2024. It is the first in a new middle grade fantasy-adventure duology, telling the story of Bea Grimspuddle and Pip, an owl who smells like butter and candle smoke. In the world of Hirathorn, Bea lives in the remote wilds of a rugged moorland settlement called Thunderheart Tor. She lo -
Ladislav Kužela
Doc. MUDr. Ladislav Kužela, PhD., MPH je slovenský gastroenterológ, autor mnohých odborných publikácií, vysokoškolský pedagóg, bývalý hlavný odborník MZ SR pre gastroenterológiu.
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George Monbiot
George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism.
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Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi (born 1965) is a British poet, author and performer. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Patience Agbabi was born in London to Nigerian parents, and from a young age was privately fostered by a white English family, who when she was 12 years old moved from Sussex to North Wales, where Agbabi was raised in Colwyn Bay. She studied English language and literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.
She earned an MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education from the University of Sussex in 2002, and in September that year was appointed Associate Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Agbabi was Canterbury Festival's Laureate in 2010. In 2018 she was Writer In Residence at the Bron -
Elisabeth Steinkellner
Elisabeth Steinkellner wuchs im südlichen Niederösterreich auf. Lange Zeit wünschte sie sich nichts sehnlicher, als Zirkusartistin zu werden. Als sie zwölf war und ihre Eltern immer noch keine Anstalten machten, sie in einer Kompanie unterzubringen, änderte sie ihre Pläne und wollte fortan Schriftstellerin werden. Oder Meeresbiologin. Oder Schaufensterdekorateurin. Nach dem Abitur kam es anders: Sie absolvierte eine Ausbildung zur Sozialpädagogin und ein Studium der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie in Wien. Nebenbei entdeckte sie die Faszination des Zirkus von Neuem, schwamm in verschiedenen Meeren und dekorierte statt Schaufenstern ihre häufig wechselnden Wohnungen. Nur die Lust am Schreiben will sich in nichts anderes verwandeln lassen und
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Patricia Forde
Patricia Forde lives in Galway, in the west of Ireland, with her husband Padraic and two teenage children. She has previously published Picture
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Books and Early Readers for children in Irish and in English. She has written two plays and several television drama series for children and
teenagers. In an earlier life, she was a primary school teacher and the artistic director of the Galway International Arts Festival.
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Charmaine Craig
Charmaine Craig is the author of the novels My Nemesis; Miss Burma, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction; and The Good Men, a national bestseller. Her writing has been published in a dozen languages and appeared in venues including The New York Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, AFAR Magazine, and Dissent. Formerly an actor in film and television, she studied literature at Harvard College, received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Abiola Bello
Abiola Bello is a Nigerian-British, prize-winning children’s/YA author who was born and raised in London. She wrote her first novel at the age of eight and experienced her first taste of ‘being published’ after winning a school poetry competition at the age of 12.
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Abiola is an advocate for diversity in books for young people. She’s the author of the award-winning fantasy series EMILY KNIGHT (EMILY KNIGHT I AM, EMILY KNIGHT I AM…AWAKENED and EMILY KNIGHT I AM BECOMING). EMILY KNIGHT I AM…AWAKENED was nominated for the CILIP’s Carnegie Award, won London’s BIG Read 2019, and was a finalist for the People’s Book Prize Best Children’s Book.
Abiola contributed to THE VERY MERRY MURDER CLUB, a collection of new mystery fiction from thirteen excitin -
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwickwas a British writer and illustrator. He authored several young adult and children's books and picture books, a work of nonfiction and several novels for adults, and illustrated a collection of myths and a book of folk tales for adults.
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Tanya Landman
Carnegie Medal winning Tanya Landman is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults.
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Born and brought up in Kent, Tanya had no intention of becoming a writer until the idea for Waking Merlin popped into her head. "It came from nowhere. It was completely out of the blue."
Tanya now lives and works in Bideford and the nearby coastline was the inspiration for her Flotsam & Jetsam series.
Tanya's first books were "adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humour." But then Tanya turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award) - the first in a series of ten "Agatha-Christie-for-kids" featuring child sleuth Poppy Fields and her friend Graham. Her new highly illustrated books -
Ilmar Tomusk
Ilmar Tomusk on sündinud 28. juunil 1964. aastal Tallinnas. Aastatel 1971–1982 õppis Tallinna 32. Keskkoolis ning 1989. aastal lõpetas Tallinna Pedagoogilise Instituudi eesti keele ja kirjanduse õpetajana. 2002. aastal kaitses Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Humanitaar- ja Sotsiaalteaduste Instituudis doktorikraadi haldusjuhtimises. Ilmar Tomusk töötab alates 1995. aastast Keeleinspektsiooni peadirektorina.
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Monique Truong
Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Monique Truong came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1975. She is a writer based now in Brooklyn, New York. Her award-winning novels are The Sweetest Fruits (Viking Books, 2019), Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010), and the national bestseller The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). She is the co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition (DVAN Series, Texas Tech University Press, 2023). With fashion designer Thai Nguyen and New York Times bestselling illustrator Dung Ho, Truong is the co-author of Mai's Áo Dài, a children's picture book (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2025).
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A Guggenheim Fellow, U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellow in Tokyo, Visiting Writer at the Helsi -
Meredith Hooper
Meredith Hooper uses the storybook form in Who Built the Pyramid? to make the latest research accessible for a young audience. Meredith Hooper is an historian by training and the author of many books, ranging in subject from Antarctica to aviation, from the history of water to the history of inventions.
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Hooper, born in 1939, graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford. -
Diana G. Gallagher
Diana G. Gallagher was an American author who wrote books for children and young adults. She also wrote the space opera The Alien Dark (1990), but was best known for her tie-in work for television properties including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Charmed, Star Trek and The Secret World of Alex Mack, among others.
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She was also a prolific filk creator, winning Pegasus Awards in 1986 and ’94. Gallagher won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 1988 under the name Diana Gallagher Wu. She sometimes also wrote under the name Diana Burke.
Born in 1946, in Paterson, New Jersey, she lived in Florida with her husband, the writer Martin R. Burke, who predeceased her in 2011. Gallagher was married four times; her third marr -
Sophie Anderson
Sophie Anderson grew up on the Welsh coast and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
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Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards’ Children’s Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie’s books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terr -
Susin Nielsen
Susin got her start feeding cast and crew on the popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. They hated her food, but they saw a spark in her writing. Nielsen went on to pen sixteen episodes of the hit TV show. Since then, Nielsen has written for over 20 Canadian TV series. Her first young adult novel, Word Nerd, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim. It won multiple Young Readers’ Choice Awards, as did her second novel, Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom. Her third novel, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, was published in August 2012. It went on to win the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year Award, and a number of Young
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Cliff McNish
I was born in Sunderland, a city in the north-east of England.
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I don’t recall too much about my first 8 years of life other than I loved being outdoors especially in the woods near our house. I came home every night covered in scratches.
My first real book memory is being given C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew by my English teacher, Mrs Baldwin. I loved that, and all the other Narnia books.
So how did I become an author?
As a parent I was used to making up short and funny stories for my daughter, Rachel. When she was about ten, however, she wanted a story about a really, really nasty witch. This time I put pen to paper and what started off as a tiny scrap of an idea got bigger and bigger and BIGGER. It became The Doomspell.
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Przemysław Wechterowicz
Pisze książki dla dzieci, ponieważ uważa, że wszystko zaczyna się właśnie od dzieci. Mieszka z żoną w Warszawie i ma okna z widokiem na drzewa. Snuł już historie o marzeniach (Wielkie marzenia), o jamniku (Anastazy), o pannie mrówce (Mrówka wychodzi za mąż), o trudnych pytaniach (Czy można dotknąć tęczy?) i o wesołej krówce (Lukrecja). A ponieważ głowę ma zawsze pełną nowych pomysłów, już niedługo pojawią się nowe!"
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Hannah Gold
Hannah Gold worked in the film and magazine industries before taking time out to pursue her dream of writing. She lives in Lincolnshire with her tortoise, her cat and her husband. This is her middle grade debut.
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Abi Elphinstone
Abi Elphinstone grew up in Scotland where she spent most of her childhood building dens, hiding in tree houses and running wild across highland glens. After being coaxed out of her tree house, she studied English at Bristol University and then worked as a teacher.
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THE DREAMSNATCHER is her debut novel for 8-12 years (published by Simon & Schuster in 2015). THE SHADOW KEEPER is her second children's book (published by Simon & Schuster in 2016).
When she's not writing, Abi volunteers for Beanstalk, teaches creative writing workshops in schools and travels the world looking for her next story. Her latest adventure involved living with the Kazakh Eagle Hunters in Mongolia… -
Kim Curran
Kim was born in Dublin and moved to London when she was seven. She got her first typewriter when she was eight, had a poem she wrote about a snail published in a magazine when she was nine, and that was it – Kim was hooked on writing.
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Because she never thought she’d actually be able to make a living as a writer, she decided she needed a trade to fall back on. So, naturally, she went to Sussex University to study philosophy.
While Kim’s plan of being paid big bucks to think deep thoughts never quite worked out, she did land a job as a junior copywriter with an ad agency a week after graduating. She’s worked in advertising ever since, specialising in writing for videogames. -
Jane Roberts
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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Roberts was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. After attending public schools, she attended Skidmore College. She wrote in a variety of genres: poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and novels. When she was in her 30s, she and her husband began to record what she said were messages from a personality named "Seth", and she wrote several books about the experience. -
Mikołaj Łoziński
Mikołaj Łoziński (ur. 1980 w Warszawie) – polski pisarz i scenarzysta, laureat Nagrody Fundacji im. Kościelskich (2007) i nagrody Paszport „Polityki” (2012).
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Kate Allen
Kate Allen grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Minneapolis, USA, with her family. She studied writing in college. The Line Tender is her first novel.
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Ján Hrustič
Ján Hrustič (1951) vyštudoval všeobecnú psychológiu so špecializáciou na poradenskú psychológiu na Filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Absolvoval viaceré sociálno-psychologické a psychoterapeutické tréningy vrátane deväťročného psychoterapeutického tréningu v Gestalt terapii organizovaného inštitútom Metanoia v Londýne. Posledných viac ako dvadsať rokov poskytoval rodinné a partnerské poradenstvo v centre poradensko-psychologických služieb, ktoré sa pretransformovalo na referát poradensko- psychologických služieb, kde pracoval až do dôchodku. Aktuálne sa ešte stále veľmi limitovane venuje rodinnému a partnerskému poradenstvu. Napísal knihu Od osamelosti k blízkemu vzťahu v partnerstve
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Veronika Cosculluela
Veronika Cosculluela je slovenská novinárka. Vyrastala v Podkoniciach pri Banskej Bystrici. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku v Bratislave a politické vedy v Grenobli a v Belehrade. Desať rokov bola hlavne politickou redaktorkou pre rôzne slovenské médiá, naposledy v Plus 7 dní. Vždy, keď bola možnosť, namiesto rozhovorov s politikmi ju to ťahalo k reportážam. Tak sa dostala aj k téme väzenstva v čase, keď sa na Slovensku začalo počas covidovej pandémie veľa rozprávať o podmienkach ľudí vo väzniciach. Zaujímalo ju, ako rozmýšľajú o tejto téme ľudia, ktorí tento uzavretý systém tvoria. Scvrknutý svet (Absynt 2025) je jej debutovou knihou.
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Anne-Marie Conway
Anne-Marie Conway is a primary school teacher specialising in drama, but also runs her own children’s theatre company, Full Circle. She lives in London with her husband, two young sons and two eccentric cats, Betty and Boo. Anne-Marie has written a number of humorous sketches which have been performed by her theatre company, but "Phoebe finds her voice", shortlisted for the inaugural Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, is her first novel.
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Tọlá Okogwu
Tọlá Okogwu was born in Lagos, Nigeria before moving to England at the age of six. After graduating with a degree in journalism, Tọlá spent far too much time trying to figure out what she wanted to do before realising her true passion was hair care and writing. When she isn’t engrossed either of these things, she can be found in Kent with her family and also writes under the pen name Lola Morayo.
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Stela Brinzeanu
Growing up in Soviet Moldova – a land where propaganda dominated the airwaves – Stela escaped into the world of literature from an early age. Books were the most exciting form of entertainment in her life and they saw her through the cold, candlelit nights when the country's authorities introduced mandatory power cuts.
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Stela moved to London at the age of 18. With a BA in Media Studies from the University of Westminster, she embarked on a brief journalistic career, training with the BBC and running a community magazine, before she turned her attention to literature. Her fiction explores issues of identity, gender roles, the unity and inter-connectedness of nature, and the conflict of religion – organised religion – vs spirituality. -
Kenizé Mourad
Kenizé Mourad est une romancière et journaliste française d'origine turco-indienne.
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Née à Paris en 1940, Kenizé de Kotwara est la fille d’une princesse turque, membre de la Dynastie ottomane (petite-fille du sultan Mourad V par sa mère Hatidjé Sultane) mariée à un rajah indien mais réfugiée à Paris. Orpheline de sa mère peu après sa naissance, elle est élevée dans un milieu catholique.
À l’âge de 20 ans, la quête de ses origines l’amène à découvrir l’Islam dans textes des grands soufis. Percevant l’Islam comme une religion ouverte et tolérante, elle conçoit son identité musulmane comme « une appartenance plus qu'une religion » à une époque où elle adhère aux « valeurs gauchistes » ambiantes. Tout en effectuant de longs séjours en Inde et au P -
Elisabeth Hyde
Elisabeth Hyde is the author, most recently, of GO ASK FANNIE, winner of the 2019 Colorado Book Award in General Fiction. She has also written five other critically acclaimed novels, including IN THE HEART OF THE CANYON, a NY Times Editor’s Choice and a People Magazine Great Read. Her fourth novel, THE ABORTIONIST'S DAUGHTER, became a best seller in Great Britain after being selected as a Summer Read by The Richard and Judy Show (Britain’s Oprah, at the time). Trained as a lawyer, she tried cases for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., for several years, a day-job that still gives her stomachaches just to think about it. Realizing that she preferred written conflict over face-to-face argument, she eventually left the law to
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Piers Torday
Piers Torday is an award-winning and best-selling children's writer. Books include The Last Wild, The Dark Wild, The Wild Beyond, The Wild Before, There May Be a Castle, The Lost Magician, and The Frozen Sea, with his latest one, Midnight Treasure, out in September 2024. His work has been translated into 14 languages.
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His plays include The Box of Delights (Wilton’s/RSC), Christmas Carol, The Child in the Snow, and The Wind in the Wilton’s (Wilton’s Music Hall). The Little Angel Theatre has adapted his book There May Be a Castle for the stage.
The son of Paul Torday (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), he completed his father’s final unfinished novel, The Death of an Owl and co-founded the Paul Torday Memorial Prize for Debut Novelists over 60.
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Emily Randall-Jones
Emily has worked as a touring actor, a princess at Hampton Court and for the National Trust creating experiences for visitors. She’s the winner of both the Mslexia Children’s and YA Novel as well as being longlisted for the Branford Boase award. 'The Scream of the Whistle' - another ghostly MG - is out June 25. She's a proudly neurodivergent single mum and can usually be found foraging for hag stones.
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Kārlis Vērdiņš
One of the most versatile poets writing in the Baltic, Latvian Kārlis Vērdiņš is a renowned critic and a prize winning poet. His selected poems in English translation "Come to Me" (translated by Ieva Lešinska) was published by Arc Publications in 2015. His books were published also in Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, French, Russian, Spanish, and Slovenian translation.
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Studējis kultūras teoriju Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā (1998-2004), ieguvis doktora grādu Latvijas Universitātē (2009). Dzeju publicējis kopš 1997. gada, iznākuši dzejoļu krājumi – „Ledlauži”, „Biezpiens ar krējumu”, "Es" un "Pieaugušie".
Kopš 2007. gada strādā LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūtā. No 2010. līdz 2015. strādājis literārā žurnāla "Latvju Teksti" redakcijā. Vē -
Amy Wilson
Amy Wilson has a background in journalism and lives in Bristol with her young family. She is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing and has many owls in her house, from drawer handles to cushions. She is still waiting for them to speak to her...
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Kimberly Behre Kenna
Kimberly Behre Kenna, a former fifth-grade teacher, is the author of the Brave Girls Collection for middle-grade readers. ARTEMIS SPARKE AND THE SOUND SEEKERS BRIGADE is a National Indies Excellence Award finalist and was short-listed for the Green Earth Book Award. JETT JAMISON AND THE SECRET STORM is a Nautilus Book Award winner, a Foreword Indies Winner, an Eric Hoffer Award winner, and was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. Kimberly’s books go beyond simple mysteries, inspiring discussions about topics such as mental health and trauma. They are a call to action for young people to speak their stories and connect with the healing power of nature.
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Edgar Mittelholzer
Edgar Mittelholzer is considered the first West Indian novelist, i.e. even though there were writers who wrote about Caribbean themes before him, he was the first to make a successful professional life out of it. Born in Guyana (then British Guiana) of Afro-European heritage, he began writing in 1929 and self-published his first book, Creole Chips, in 1937.
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Mittelholzer left Guyana for Trinidad in 1941, eventually migrating to England in 1948, living the rest of his life there except for three years in Barbados, and a shorter period in Canada. Between 1951 and 1965, he published twenty-one novels, and two works of non-fiction, including his autobiographical, A Swarthy Boy.
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Karen Swann
Karen Swann won the Writing Magazine Picture Book Prize in 2018. She grew up in the UK where she trained as a physiotherapist in a small town by the sea. Always a writer and a storyteller, she now lives with her family in Nottingham and, when she’s not halfway up a climbing wall, she loves to write lyrical rhyming stories at an old Victorian scrub-top table. The Tale of the Whale is her debut picture book
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