Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls (born June 22, 1983 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a British children's and youth author.

Life and accomplishments

Nicholls traveled to Australia and New Zealand after finishing school; she then worked in a hospital in Japan. She then studied philosophy and literature at the University of Warwick , but then moved to Bath , where she completed "Writing for Young People". Nicholls has lived in London since 2008.

She wrote her first book Ways to Live Forever (German: How to become immortal - every minute counts ) during her time in Bath. The book is about 11 year old Sam who dies of leukemia .

Works

• All about Ella

• How to become immortal - Every minute counts (Original: Ways to Live Forever, translated by Birgitt Kollmann), Hanser 2008, ISBN 978-3423624558
• Time of Secrets (Original: Season of Secrets, translated by Birgitt Kollmann), Hanser 2010, ISBN 978-3423625029
• Nobody gets away - a story of survival (original title: All Fall Down , translated by Beate Schäfer), Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24511-2 ; as an audio book : Nobody gets away - a story of survival. Reading for large and small ears from the age of 12 (4 CDs, 307 min., Read by Anne Moll , director: Rainer Gussek). Audiolino, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86737-189-6 .
• Wishes are for failure , Hanser 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25083-3
• An island for us alone (Original: An Island of our Own, translated by Beate Schäfer ), Hanser 2017, ISBN 978-3423640282

Awards

• Lynx of the year 2008
• Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2008
• Shortlist of the German Youth Literature Award 2009
• Branford Boase Award 2009
• Concorde Children's Book Award 2009
• German audio book award in the category "Best Children's Audio Book " 2010

literature

• Petra Lenz: Dying, Death and Happiness in Ethics Class. Treat existential questions using a youth novel, in: Religion 5-10 Heft 7, 2013, pp. 40f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sally Nicholls in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.sallynicholls.com