Frances Hardinge
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Frances Hardinge | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
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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.
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.[1][2] It was published in 2005, and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books and won the Branford Boase Award.[3][4][5] 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.[6]
Hardinge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.[7]
Personal life
Awards and honours
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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| 2006 | Fly by Night | Branford Boase Award | — | Won | |
| 2011 | Twilight Robbery | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize | — | Shortlisted | |
| 2012 | A Face Like Glass | Kitschies | Red Tentacle | Shortlisted | |
| 2015 | Cuckoo Song | British Fantasy Award | Robert Holdstock Award | Won | [8] |
| Carnegie Medal | — | Shortlisted | |||
| The Lie Tree | Costa Book Awards | Book of the Year | Won | [9][10] | |
| Children's | Won | [11][12] | |||
| 2016 | Boston Globe–Horn Book Award | Fiction | Won | [13] | |
| Carnegie Medal | — | Shortlisted | |||
| 2021 | Honkaku Mystery of the Decade | Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade – 2010s | Shortlisted |
