Lucy Christopher is a British/Australian author best known for her novel Stolen, which won the Branford Boase award 2010 in the UK, and the 2010 Gold Inky in Australia. Her second book, Flyaway, was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards and the 2010 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.[1][2] She currently lives between Australia and the United Kingdom and has just finished her first book for an adult audience, RELEASE.
Life
Lucy grew up in Australia and attended Mentone Girls' Grammar School,.[3] She works as a senior lecturer at in Creative Writing at UTAS, Tasmania. She studied for an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University after which she became course director.[4]
She visited the school of Mexico "Instituto Verde Valle" in Guadalajara. There she gave a conference about her books.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Stolen (2009/2010) or in Spanish Robada una carta a mi secuestrador
Flyaway (2012)
The Killing Woods (2013) or in Spanish El bosque del verdugo
^Brown, Mark (16 November 2010). "Costa prize shortlist falls short on biographies". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2011. The shortlisted children's books – only once the winner of the overall prize – are Lucy Christopher, a graduate of the Bath Spa university creative writing MA course, for Flyaway...
