Frances Hardinge
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Born | 1973 (age 47–48) Brighton, East Sussex, England |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | British |
Genre | Young adult fiction |
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Frances Hardinge (born 1973)[1] is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, Fly By Night, won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books,[2][3][4] while her 2015 novel The Lie Tree won the 2015 Costa Book Award, the first children's book to do so since Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001.[5] She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories.[2]
Biography[]
Hardinge was born in Brighton, England, and dreamed of writing at the age of four. She studied English at Somerville College, University of Oxford and was the founder member of a writers' workshop there.[1][6]
Her writing career started after she won a short story magazine competition. Shortly after winning she wrote Fly By Night in her spare time and showed it to Macmillan Publishers after pressure from a friend.[1][6] Twilight Robbery is a sequel to Fly by Night, featuring again the young heroine Mosca Mye, her pet goose Saracen, and Eponymous Clent, a conman.
Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned clothing.[1][6]
Awards and honours[]
- 2006: Branford Boase Award, winner, Fly by Night[7]
- 2011: Guardian Award, short-list, Twilight Robbery
- 2012: Kitschies, short-list, A Face Like Glass
- 2015: Carnegie Medal, short-list, Cuckoo Song
- 2015: Costa Book Awards, winner, children's, The Lie Tree[8][9]
- 2015: Costa Book Awards, winner, Book of the Year, The Lie Tree[10]
- 2015: Robert Holdstock Award, winner, best fantasy novel, Cuckoo Song[11]
- 2016: Carnegie Medal, short-list, The Lie Tree
- 2016: Boston Globe-Horn Book award, winner, The Lie Tree[12]
Publications[]
Novels[]
All of Hardinge's novels have so far been published in the UK by Macmillan Children's Books.[13]
- Fly By Night (2005)
- Verdigris Deep (2007); US title, Well Witched
- Gullstruck Island (2009); US title, The Lost Conspiracy
- Twilight Robbery (2011); US title, Fly Trap – sequel to Fly by Night
- A Face Like Glass (2012)
- Cuckoo Song (2014)
- The Lie Tree (2015)
- A Skinful of Shadows (September 2017)
- (October 2019)
Short fiction[]
Hardinge has written several short stories published in magazines and anthologies.[13][14]
- "Shining Man", The Dream Zone 8 (Jan 2001)
- "Communion", Wordplay 1 (Spring 2002)
- "Captive Audience", Piffle 7 (Oct 2002)
- "Bengal Rose", Scribble 20 (Spring 2003)
- "Black Grass", All Hallows 43 (Summer 2007)
- "Halfway House", Alchemy 3 (Jan 2006)
- "Behind The Mirror", serialised in First News (2007)
- "Payment Due", in Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Random House, 2012)
- "Flawless", in Twisted Winter, ed. Catherine Butler (Black, 2013)
- "Hayfever", Subterranean, Winter 2014 (Dec 2013)
- "Blind Eye", The Outcast Hours, ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Solaris, 2019)
- "God's Eye", in Mystery & Mayhem, (Egmont Publishing, 2016)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Frances Hardinge Biography". Kidzworld. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "The Library: Awards and Prizes". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "Branford Boase Award 2006". The Branford Boase Award. 2006. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ Jones, Trevelyn; Toth, Luann; Charnizon, Marlene; Grabarek, Daryl; Fleishhacker, Joy (1 December 2006). "Best Books 2006". School Library Journal. Archived from the original on 8 June 2008.
- ^ Brown, Mark (26 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Frances' Biography". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "Previous Winners". The Branford Boase Award. 2006 Winner. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ "2015 Costa Category Award Winners" (PDF). Costa Coffee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ Drabble, Emily (4 January 2016). "Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ "2015 Book of the Year" (PDF). The Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "sfadb : Frances Hardinge Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech". The Horn Book. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Frances Hardinge – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-10-18. Select a title to see its linked publication history and general information. Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
- ^ "The Library: Short Stories". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
External links[]
- Official website
- Fly by Night, Blog by Day — Tour blog
- Frances Hardinge at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Frances Hardinge at Library of Congress Authorities, with 4 catalogue records
- 1973 births
- Living people
- English children's writers
- English fantasy writers
- Dark fantasy writers
- Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
- British women novelists