Janni Howker

Janni Howker is a British author who has written several award-winning adult and children's books; she has also adapted her work for the screen. Howker has worked across the UK running creative writing workshops for adults and children, and is involved in several arts development programmes.

She lives in the north of England, where many of her books are set: most notably Martin Farrell, which tells the tale of a boy caught in the midst of the bloody feuds of the Border Reivers.

Awards

• International Reading Award
• Tom-Gallon Award
• Observer Teenage Fiction Award
• 1985 Whitbread Awards Nature of the Beast– Best children's book, 1985 ^[1]
• Somerset Maugham Award.
• Carnegie Medal

Bibliography

Novels

• Nature of the Beast (1985)
• Isaac Campion (1986)
• Martin Farrell (1994)

Shorter Works

• Badger on the Barge (1984) - collection of five stories, short-listed for both the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal
• The Topiary Garden (1993) - story from Badger on the Barge, illustrated by Anthony Browne
• Walk With a Wolf (1997) - picture book, illustrated by Sarah Fox-Davies
• Mud - Short Story

References

External links

• Short autobiography on Walker Books website