Jenny Valentine

Jenny Valentine (* 1970 in Cambridge ) is a British author for children and young people.

Life

Valentine studied English Language and Literature at Goldsmith's College, London . For her first published book Finding Violet Park , she received the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007. Her novels are always about secrets.

Valentine lives in Hay-on-Wye with husband Alex Valentine and two children .

Awards

• 2010: LUCHS 280 for Broken Soup
• 2010: Toad of the month April for broken soup
• 2011: Invitation to the children's and youth program at the 11th international literature festival berlin

• 2011: The best 7 books for young readers (Deutschlandfunk / Focus) for The Second Life of Cassiel Roadnight

Works

• 2007: Finding Violet Park (US edition: Me, the Missing, and the Dead ).
  • German-language edition: 2009: Who is Violet Park? .
• 2008: Broken Soup .
  • German-language edition: 2010: Broken soup .
• 2009: The Ant Colony .
  • German-language edition: 2010: The Ant Colony .
• 2010: The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight .
  • German-language edition: 2013: The Second Life of Cassiel Roadnight .
• 2015: Fire Color One .
  • German-language edition: 2016: Durchs Feuer .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ perlentaucher.de Perlentaucher profile of the author
2. ↑ dtv.de dtv publisher information
3. ↑ "There is always a secret" Deutschlandfunk, accessed April 9, 2016.
4. ↑ harpercollins.com ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. HarperCollins publisher information 
5. ↑ zeit.de time interview, May 12, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jenny Valentine in the catalog of the German National Library