Frances Hardinge

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Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, Fly by Night, won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books. She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for her novels and short stories.

Early life and education

Hardinge was born in 1973 in Brighton, England, and dreamed of writing at the age of four. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and was the founder member of a writers' workshop there.

Career

Her writing career started after she won a short story magazine competition. Shortly after winning she wrote her debut novel, Fly by Night, in her spare time and showed it to Macmillan Publishers after pressure from a friend. It was published in 2005, and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books and won the Branford Boase Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/awards.html |title=The Library: Awards and Prizes |accessdate=2008-05-18 |work=Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526124727/http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/awards.html |archivedate=26 May 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}{{cite web|url=http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/BBA/BBA%202006/bbawinner2006.html |title=Branford Boase Award 2006 |accessdate=2008-05-18 |year=2006 |publisher=The Branford Boase Award |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080519152635/http://www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk/BBA/BBA%202006/bbawinner2006.html |archivedate=19 May 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}{{cite web |url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6395088.html |title=Best Books 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608004515/http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6395088.html|archivedate=2008-06-08|last1=Jones |first1=Trevelyn |last2=Toth|first2=Luann|last3=Charnizon|first3=Marlene|last4=Grabarek|first4=Daryl|last5=Fleishhacker|first5=Joy |date=2006-12-01 |work=School Library Journal}}

Her 2015 novel The Lie Tree won the 2015 Costa Book Award Book of the Year, the only children's book to do so besides Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/26/frances-hardinges-the-lie-tree-wins-costa-book-of-the-year-2015?subid=13747119&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2|title=Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree wins Costa book of the year 2015|first=Mark|last=Brown|date=2016-01-26|accessdate=2016-01-27|newspaper=The Guardian}}

Personal life

Hardinge is often seen wearing a black hat and enjoys dressing in old-fashioned clothing.{{cite web |url=http://www.kidzworld.com/article/6702-frances-hardinge-biography |title=Frances Hardinge Biography |accessdate=2007-06-11 |work=Kidzworld}}{{cite web|url=http://www.franceshardinge.com/hall/author.html |title=Frances' Biography |accessdate=2008-05-18 |work=Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526124706/http://www.franceshardinge.com/hall/author.html |archivedate=26 May 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}

Awards and honours

class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Award !Category !Result !Ref
2006 \|Fly by Night \|Branford Boase Award \|— \|{{Won}} \|
2011 \|Twilight Robbery \|Guardian Children's Fiction Prize \|— \|{{Sho}} \|
2012 \|A Face Like Glass \|Kitschies \|Red Tentacle \|{{Sho}} \|
rowspan="4" \|2015 \| rowspan="2" \|Cuckoo Song \|British Fantasy Award \|Robert Holdstock Award \|{{Won}} \|{{Cite web \|title=sfadb : Frances Hardinge Awards \|url=http://www.sfadb.com/Frances_Hardinge \|access-date=2018-11-09 \|website=www.sfadb.com}}
Carnegie Medal \|— \|{{Sho}} \|
rowspan="5" \|The Lie Tree \| rowspan="2" \|Costa Book Awards \|Book of the Year \|{{Won}} \|{{cite web \|title=2015 Book of the Year \|url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/400329/cboyfr.pdf \|accessdate=2016-01-26 \|website=The Costa Book Awards}}{{cite web \| last=Rustin \| first=Susanna \| title=Frances Hardinge: 'To be following in the footsteps of Philip Pullman is pretty amazing' \| website=the Guardian \| date=2016-01-27 \| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/frances-hardinge-costa-interview-i-have-galloping-imposter-syndrome \| access-date=2024-12-08}}
Children's \|{{Won}} \|{{cite web \|title=2015 Costa Category Award Winners \|url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/391535/2015awardwinners.pdf \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107191537/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/391535/2015awardwinners.pdf \|archive-date=7 January 2016 \|accessdate=2016-01-05 \|publisher=Costa Coffee}}{{cite news \|last=Drabble \|first=Emily \|date=2016-01-04 \|title=Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/04/frances-hardinge-costa-childrens-book-award-2015-the-lie-tree \|accessdate=2016-01-05 \|newspaper=The Guardian}}
rowspan="2" \|2016 \|Boston Globe–Horn Book Award \|Fiction \|{{Won}} \|{{Cite news \|date=2016-12-01 \|title=The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech \|url=https://www.hbook.com/2016/12/authors-illustrators/the-lie-tree-author-frances-hardinges-2016-bghb-fiction-award-speech/ \|access-date=2018-11-09 \|work=The Horn Book \|language=en-US}}
Carnegie Medal \|— \|{{Sho}} \|
2021 \|Honkaku Mystery of the Decade \|Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade – 2010s \|{{Sho}} \|

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!Year

!Title

!Award

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2006

|Fly by Night

|Branford Boase Award

|—

|{{Won}}

2011

|Twilight Robbery

|Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

|—

|{{Sho}}

2012

|A Face Like Glass

|Kitschies

|Red Tentacle

|{{Sho}}

rowspan="4" |2015

| rowspan="2" |Cuckoo Song

|British Fantasy Award

|Robert Holdstock Award

|{{Won}}

|{{Cite web |title=sfadb : Frances Hardinge Awards |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Frances_Hardinge |access-date=2018-11-09 |website=www.sfadb.com}}

Carnegie Medal

|—

|{{Sho}}

rowspan="5" |The Lie Tree

| rowspan="2" |Costa Book Awards

|Book of the Year

|{{Won}}

|{{cite web |title=2015 Book of the Year |url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/400329/cboyfr.pdf |accessdate=2016-01-26 |website=The Costa Book Awards}}{{cite web | last=Rustin | first=Susanna | title=Frances Hardinge: 'To be following in the footsteps of Philip Pullman is pretty amazing' | website=the Guardian | date=2016-01-27 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/frances-hardinge-costa-interview-i-have-galloping-imposter-syndrome | access-date=2024-12-08}}

Children's

|{{Won}}

|{{cite web |title=2015 Costa Category Award Winners |url=http://www.costa.co.uk/media/391535/2015awardwinners.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107191537/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/391535/2015awardwinners.pdf |archive-date=7 January 2016 |accessdate=2016-01-05 |publisher=Costa Coffee}}{{cite news |last=Drabble |first=Emily |date=2016-01-04 |title=Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children's book award 2015 with The Lie Tree |url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/04/frances-hardinge-costa-childrens-book-award-2015-the-lie-tree |accessdate=2016-01-05 |newspaper=The Guardian}}

rowspan="2" |2016

|Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

|Fiction

|{{Won}}

|{{Cite news |date=2016-12-01 |title=The Lie Tree: Author Frances Hardinge's 2016 BGHB Fiction Award Speech |url=https://www.hbook.com/2016/12/authors-illustrators/the-lie-tree-author-frances-hardinges-2016-bghb-fiction-award-speech/ |access-date=2018-11-09 |work=The Horn Book |language=en-US}}

Carnegie Medal

|—

|{{Sho}}

2021

|Honkaku Mystery of the Decade

|Translated Honkaku Mystery of the Decade – 2010s

|{{Sho}}

Works

= Novels =

Fly by Night (2005)
Verdigris Deep (2007); US title, Well Witched
Gullstruck Island (2009); US title, The Lost Conspiracy
Twilight Robbery (2011); US title, Fly Trap – sequel to Fly by Night
A Face Like Glass (2012){{cite web | last=Scribbler | first=Secret | title=review | website=the Guardian | date=2016-07-07 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jul/07/a-face-like-glass-frances-hardinge-review | access-date=2024-12-08}}{{cite web | last=Romano | first=Aja | title=Now is the perfect time to discover children's fantasy author Frances Hardinge | website=Vox | date=2020-04-24 | url=https://www.vox.com/2020/4/24/21232757/frances-hardinge-novels-a-face-like-glass-book-recommendations | access-date=2024-12-08}}
Cuckoo Song (2014){{cite web | title=review | website=the Guardian | date=2014-06-20 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/jun/20/review-frances-hardinge-cuckoo-song | access-date=2024-12-08}}
The Lie Tree (2015){{cite web | title=The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge – review | website=the Guardian | date=2016-05-24 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/may/24/the-lie-tree-frances-hardinge-review | access-date=2024-12-08}}
A Skinful of Shadows (September 2017){{cite web | last=Womack | first=Philip | title=A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge review – darkly splendid mystery | website=the Guardian | date=2017-09-23 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2017/sep/23/skinful-of-shadows-frances-hardinge-review | access-date=2024-12-08}}
Deeplight (October 2019){{cite web | last=Williams | first=Imogen Russell | title=Deeplight by Frances Hardinge review – a rich and strange island adventure | website=the Guardian | date=2019-10-30 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/30/deeplight-by-frances-hardinge-review | access-date=2024-12-08}}{{cite web | title='My books are strange in quite different ways from each other' | website=The Bookseller | date=2019-07-19 | url=https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/interview-frances-hardinge-my-books-are-strange-quite-different-ways-each-other-1051661 | language=br | access-date=2024-12-08}}
Unraveller (September 2022)

= Short fiction =

Hardinge has written several short stories published in magazines and anthologies, as well as two that were published as standalone books.{{cite web|url=http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/shortstories.html |title=The Library: Short Stories |accessdate=2008-05-18 |work=Frances Hardinge's Dark Tower |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526124754/http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/shortstories.html |archivedate=26 May 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}

"Shining Man", The Dream Zone 8 (Jan 2001)
"Communion", Wordplay 1 (Spring 2002)
"Captive Audience", Piffle 7 (Oct 2002)
"Bengal Rose", Scribble 20 (Spring 2003)
"Black Grass", All Hallows 43 (Summer 2007)
"Halfway House", Alchemy 3 (Jan 2006)
"Behind The Mirror", serialised in First News (2007)
"Payment Due", in Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Random House, 2012)
"Flawless", in Twisted Winter, ed. Catherine Butler (Black, 2013)
"Hayfever", Subterranean, Winter 2014 (Dec 2013)
"Blind Eye", The Outcast Hours, ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Solaris, 2019)
"God's Eye", in [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Mayhem-The-Crime-Club/dp/1405282649 Mystery & Mayhem], (Egmont Publishing, 2016)
Island of Whispers (2023); illustrated by Emily Gravett{{cite news |last1=Bearn |first1=Emily |title=Come, children, and meet the souls of the dead |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/childrens-books/review-island-whispers-frances-hardinge/ |access-date=22 September 2023 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |date=21 September 2023}}
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (2024); illustrated by Emily Gravett{{cite web | last=Ingall | first=Marjorie | title=Book Review: 'Island of Whispers,' by Frances Hardinge | website=The New York Times | date=2024-12-05 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/books/review/island-of-whispers-frances-hardinge-emily-gravett.html | access-date=2024-12-08}}

References

{{reflist |25em |refs=[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?36306 "Frances Hardinge – Summary Bibliography"]. ISFDB. Retrieved 2014-10-18.}}

External links

{{official website }}
[http://flybynightblogbyday.blogspot.com/ Fly by Night, Blog by Day] — tour blog
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{{LCAuth|n2005052543|Frances Hardinge|4|ue}}
{{cite interview| url=https://thestorymuseum.bandcamp.com/track/frances-hardinge-with-cambridge-jones| first= Frances| last= Hardinge| interviewer-first= Cambridge| interviewer-last= Jones| format= audio| interviewer-link= Cambridge Jones| date=2 April 2014| title=Frances Hardinge with Cambridge Jones, from 26 Characters by The Story Museum}}

Category:1973 births

Category:Living people

Category:English children's writers

Category:English fantasy writers

Category:Dark fantasy writers

Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford

Category:English women novelists

Category:21st-century English novelists

Category:21st-century English women writers