Australian writer
Lanagan in 2007
Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in Waratah, New South Wales ) is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction .
Biography
She grew up in Raymond Terrace and moved to Melbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney in 1982.[1]
Many of her books, including Young Adult (YA) fiction, were only published in Australia, but several have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black Juice won two World Fantasy Awards and a 2006 Printz Honor Award . It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin , in the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by HarperCollins in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story "Singing My Sister Down ", which was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for the best short story.
Her short story collection White Time (ISBN 0-06-074393-X ), originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by HarperCollins in August 2006, after the success of Black Juice . It received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.[2]
In addition to Black Juice , a 2006 recipient, Tender Morsels also won a Printz Honor Award in 2009.
Tender Morsels was a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, the novella Sea-Hearts (later expanded into a novel) was a 2009 finalist. Tender Morsels won a World Fantasy Award in 2009 for best novel,[3] and was a Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book nominee.[4] Sea-Hearts won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 2010.[5]
Lanagan is an alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop , 1999, and returned as a teacher in 2011 and 2013.
Bibliography
Novels
Teenage romances
As Melanie Carter:
As Belinda Hayes:
As Gilly Lockwood:
As Mandy McBride:
As Margo Lanagan:
Junior fiction
WildGame . Sydney: Allen & Unwin . 1991.
The Tankermen . Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Walking Through Albert . Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
Treasure-Hunters of Quentaris : Lothian Books. 2004.
The Singing Stones: a tale of the shimmaron. ABC Books. 2007.
Young adult fiction
Fantasy fiction
Tender Morsels (2008)
Sea Hearts (Australia)/The Brides of Rollrock Island (UK and US)(2012)[6]
Short story collections
Short fiction
References
External links
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1975–2000
"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal " by Robert Aickman (1975)
"Belsen Express " by Fritz Leiber (1976)
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding " by Russell Kirk (1977)
"The Chimney " by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
"Naples " by Avram Davidson (1979)
"Mackintosh Willy " by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
"The Woman Who Loved the Moon " by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
"The Ugly Chickens " by Howard Waldrop (1981)
"The Dark Country " by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
"Do the Dead Sing? " by Stephen King (1982, tie)
"The Gorgon " by Tanith Lee (1983)
"Elle Est Trois, (La Mort) " by Tanith Lee (1984)
"The Bones Wizard " by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
"Still Life with Scorpion " by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
"Paper Dragons " by James Blaylock (1986)
"Red Light " by David J. Schow (1987)
"Friend's Best Man " by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station " by John M. Ford (1989)
"The Illusionist " by Steven Millhauser (1990)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream " by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
"The Somewhere Doors " by Fred Chappell (1992)
"Graves " by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
"This Year's Class Picture " by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
"The Lodger " by Fred Chappell (1994)
"The Man in the Black Suit " by Stephen King (1995)
"The Grass Princess " by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
"Thirteen Phantasms " by James Blaylock (1997)
"Dust Motes " by P. D. Cacek (1998)
"The Specialist's Hat " by Kelly Link (1999)
"The Chop Girl " by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)
2001–present
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