Lucy Christopher

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Lucy Christopher (* 1981 in Wales ) is a British - Australian writer .

Life

Christopher grew up in Wales. At the age of nine, she and her family moved to Melbourne , Australia. There she went to school and studied at the University of Melbourne . After graduation, she moved back to Wales, where she studied creative writing at Bath Spa University and received a Master of Arts and PhD in creative writing. Today she works as a sessional lecturer at Bath Spa University. In the course of her doctorate, she wrote her debut novel Stolen . Stolen was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and won the Branford Boase Award 2010. The book also won the Australian Gold Inky Award and was nominated for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers . In 2011 the book received the Honor Book award from the Michael L. Printz Awards . Her second book Flyaway was nominated for the 2010 Costa Book Award , the Waterstones Prize and the Carnegie Medal .

Publications

  • Stolen (April 2009) (German: I wish I could hate you , 2011)
  • Flyaway (January 2010) (German: Isla Schwanenmädchen , 2011)
  • The Killing Woods (October 2013) (Eng .: Kiss me, kill me , 2014)
  • Storm-Wake (2018)

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personal data
SURNAME Christopher, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Wales