Frances Hardinge

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British writer

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Frances Hardinge (born 1973) 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. She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for her novels and short stories.

Early life and education

Hardinge was born in 1973 in Brighton, England, and dreamed of writing at the age of four. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and was the founder member of a writers' workshop there.

Career

Her writing career started after she won a short story magazine competition. Shortly after winning she wrote her debut novel, Fly by Night, in her spare time and showed it to Macmillan Publishers after pressure from a friend. It was published in 2005, and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books and won the Branford Boase Award. Her 2015 novel The Lie Tree won the 2015 Costa Book Award Book of the Year, the only children's book to do so besides Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001.

Hardinge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.

Personal life

Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned clothing.

Awards and honours

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YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef200620112012201520162021
Fly by NightBranford Boase Award—
Twilight RobberyGuardian Children's Fiction Prize—
A Face Like GlassKitschiesRed Tentacle
Cuckoo SongBritish Fantasy AwardRobert Holdstock Award
Carnegie Medal—
The Lie TreeCosta Book AwardsBook of the Year
Children's
Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardFiction
Carnegie Medal—
Honkaku Mystery of the DecadeTranslated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade – 2010s
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Works

Novels

Short fiction

Hardinge has written several short stories published in magazines and anthologies, as well as two that were published as standalone books.

  • "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)
  • Island of Whispers (2023); illustrated by Emily Gravett
  • The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (2024); illustrated by Emily Gravett

References

References

  1. "The Library: Awards and Prizes". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower.
  2. (2006). "Branford Boase Award 2006". The [[Branford Boase Award]].
  3. (2006-12-01). "Best Books 2006". [[School Library Journal]].
  4. Brown, Mark. (2016-01-26). "Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015". [[The Guardian]].
  5. (2023-09-01). "Hardinge, Frances".
  6. "Frances Hardinge Biography". Kidzworld.
  7. "Frances' Biography". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower.
  8. "sfadb : Frances Hardinge Awards".
  9. "2015 Book of the Year".
  10. Rustin, Susanna. (2016-01-27). "Frances Hardinge: 'To be following in the footsteps of Philip Pullman is pretty amazing'".
  11. "2015 Costa Category Award Winners". [[Costa Coffee]].
  12. Drabble, Emily. (2016-01-04). "Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree". The Guardian.
  13. (2016-12-01). "The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech". The Horn Book.
  14. Scribbler, Secret. (2016-07-07). "review".
  15. Romano, Aja. (2020-04-24). "Now is the perfect time to discover children's fantasy author Frances Hardinge".
  16. (2014-06-20). "review".
  17. (2016-05-24). "The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge – review".
  18. Womack, Philip. (2017-09-23). "A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge review – darkly splendid mystery".
  19. Williams, Imogen Russell. (2019-10-30). "Deeplight by Frances Hardinge review – a rich and strange island adventure".
  20. (2019-07-19). "'My books are strange in quite different ways from each other'".
  21. "The Library: Short Stories". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower.
  22. (21 September 2023). "Come, children, and meet the souls of the dead". The Daily Telegraph.
  23. Ingall, Marjorie. (2024-12-05). "Book Review: 'Island of Whispers,' by Frances Hardinge".
  24. [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?36306 "Frances Hardinge – Summary Bibliography"]. [[ISFDB]]. Retrieved 2014-10-18.

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