Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 43 (2007) Winner
Jenny Valentine
ジェニー・ヴァレンタイン
Jenī Vuarentain
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1970 （Cambridge）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Cambridge, England → Glasbury-on-Wye, Wales → Hay-on-Wye, Wales
Career
- Occupations
- children's novelist, author, health food shop owner
- Active Years
- 2007-2024
- Nominations
- Carnegie Medal shortlist (Finding Violet Park), Waterstone's Children's Book Prize shortlist (Broken Soup), Costa Book Children's Book Award shortlist (Broken Soup), Booktrust Teenage Prize longlist (Broken Soup), Manchester Book Award longlist, Carnegie Medal nomination (top 40) (The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight), Carnegie Medal for Writing longlist (Us in the Before and After)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldsmiths, University of London | Faculty of English Literature | English Literature Department | — | — | United Kingdom |
Goldsmiths, University of London
Faculty of English Literature
/ English Literature Department
Country:
United Kingdom
Education in English literature.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize | Finding Violet Park | Children's Fiction | The Guardian | winner |
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
2007
Work:
Finding Violet Park
Category:
Children's Fiction
Organization:
The Guardian
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Finding Violet Park
2007 Children's literatureTranslations
- Basque translation
- Catalan translation
- Italian translation
- Dutch translation
- French translation
- German translation
- Slovenian translation
- Spanish translation
- Norwegian translation
Bibliography
- 2007 Finding Violet Park (US: Me, the Missing, and the Dead)
- 2008 Broken Soup
- 2009 Ten Stations (short story)
- 2009 The Ant Colony
- 2009 Iggy & Me (short story series)
- 2010 The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight
- 2010 Doppelganger
- 2010 Iggy & me (#1)
- 2010 Iggy & me: The happy birthday (#2)
- 2010 Iggy & me on holiday (#3)
- 2011 Iggy & me and the baby (#4)
- 2015 Fire Colour One
- 2020 Hello Now
- 2021 A Girl Called Joy (#1)
- 2021 Love From Joy (#2)
- 2022 Planet Joy (#3)
- 2024 Us in the Before and After
- 2025 The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster: The Frenemies (Volume 1)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Engaging storytelling for children
- Recurring Motifs
- lossmissing persons
Legacy
English children's novelist known for winning the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her debut novel Finding Violet Park. Nominated for several awards and participates in Hay Festival.
Trivia
- Married to singer/songwriter Alex Valentine, with whom she runs a health food shop in Hay-on-Wye.
- Has two children.
- Participates annually in the Hay Festival.