Anna Fienberg

Anna Fienberg
Born 1956 (age 5960)
England
Nationality Australian
Genre Young-adult fiction, children's literature

Anna Fienberg is an Australian writer of young-adult fiction and children's literature.

Biography

Fienberg was born in 1956 in England before moving to Australia at the age of three. She has worked as an editor for School Magazine. In 1988 her first work was published, entitled Billy Bear and the Wild Winter. In 1989 Fienberg released her first novel, The Nine Lives of Balthazar.[1] She has won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers in 1992 for The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels and has been a short-list nominee on four other occasions.[2] Fienberg has also won the Alan Marshall Award for Children's Literature in 1993 for Ariel, Zed & the Secret of Life and the 2003 Aurealis Award for best children's short fiction for Tashi and the Haunted House. She has also been an Aurealis Award finalist on four other occasions.[2][3][4]

Bibliography

Novels

Chapter books

Tashi (with Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble)

Other books

Collections

Picture books

Minton (with Kim Gamble)

Other books

Short fiction

Other works

Nominations and awards

Alan Marshall Award

Aurealis Awards

CBCA Book of the Year Award

References

  1. "Anna Fienberg". Fantastic Fiction. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Authors & Illustrators – F". Department of Education. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  3. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees page 46". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  4. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees page 47". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 10 May 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.

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