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 both her novels as well as some of her short stories.
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| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
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Early life and education
editHardinge 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.[1][2]
Career
editHer 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]
Personal life
editHardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned clothing.[1][2]
Awards and honours
edit| 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 | [7] |
| Carnegie Medal | — | Shortlisted | |||
| The Lie Tree | Costa Book Awards | Book of the Year | Won | [8] | |
| Children's | Won | [9][10] | |||
| 2016 | Boston Globe–Horn Book Award | Fiction | Won | [11] | |
| Carnegie Medal | — | Shortlisted | |||
| 2021 | Honkaku Mystery of the Decade | Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade – 2010s | Shortlisted |
Works
editNovels
edit- 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)
- Deeplight (October 2019)
- Unraveller (September 2022)
- Island of Whispers (2023); illustrated by Emily Gravett[12]
- The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (2024); illustrated by Emily Gravett
Short fiction
editHardinge 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)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Frances Hardinge Biography". Kidzworld. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ^ a b c "Frances' Biography". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "The Library: Awards and Prizes". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "Branford Boase Award 2006". The Branford Boase Award. 2006. Archived from the original on 19 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.
- ^ "sfadb : Frances Hardinge Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ "2015 Book of the Year" (PDF). The Costa Book Awards. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech". The Horn Book. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Bearn, Emily (21 September 2023). "Come, children, and meet the souls of the dead". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Frances Hardinge – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
- ^ "The Library: Short Stories". Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
External links
edit- Official website
- Fly by Night, Blog by Day — Tour blog
- Frances Hardinge at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Frances Hardinge at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalogue records
- Hardinge, Frances (2 April 2014). "Frances Hardinge with Cambridge Jones, from 26 Characters by The Story Museum" (audio) (Interview). Interviewed by Jones, Cambridge.
