Justine Larbalestier

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| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

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| occupation = Writer

| period = 1997–present

| genre = Young adult fantasy

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| spouse = {{marriage|Scott Westerfeld|2001}}

| website = {{URL|justinelarbalestier.com}}

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Justine Larbalestier ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|l|ɑr|b|ə|ˈ|l|ɛ|s|t|i|.|ɛər}} {{respell|LAR|bə|LEST|ee|air}};[http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=5745 teachingbooks.net "Justine Larbalestier Audio Name Pronunciation"] (audio recording). TeachingBooks (teachingbooks.net). Retrieved 9 May 2014.{{cite web|author=Justine Larbalestier|title=Personal FAQ|date=10 December 2008 |url=http://justinelarbalestier.com/faq/personal-faq/|access-date=15 November 2009}} born 23 September 1967{{Cite web|url=https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-23-september-justine-larbalestier/|title = Literary Birthday – 23 September – Justine Larbalestier|date = 22 September 2017}}) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction best known for her 2009 novel, Liar.

Personal life

Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney. She now alternates residence between Sydney and New York City.

In 2001 she married the American science fiction writer Scott Westerfeld,{{cite web|url=http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?page_id=109|title=Scott Facts|work=westerblog|author=Scott Westerfeld|access-date=15 January 2010|author-link=Scott Westerfeld}} whom she met in New York City in 2000.{{cite web|url=http://slayground.livejournal.com/113442.html|title=Interview: Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld|access-date=15 January 2010|date=26 July 2006|work=Bildungsroman}}

==Selected works==

=Nonfiction=

'Ending the Battle of the Sexes? Hermaphroditism in "Venus Plus X" by Theodore Sturgeon and "Motherhood, Etc." by L. Timmel Duchamp', The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1997, pp. 14–16.
Opulent Darkness: The Werewolves of Tanith Lee (New Lambton: Nimrod Publications, 1999). {{ISBN|978-0-909242-52-7}} – Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers, no. 9 (20 pages)[http://lccn.loc.gov/2001320409 "Opulent darkness: the werewolves of Tanith Lee"]. Library of Congress Catalog. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, edited (Wesleyan, 2006).

=Fiction as editor=

Zombies vs. Unicorns (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010), eds. Larbalestier and Holly Black. {{ISBN|978-1-4169-8-953-0}}

=Novels=

;Magic or Madness trilogy, or Reason Cansino series

Magic or Madness (Penguin, 2005). {{ISBN|978-1-59514-022-7}}
Magic Lessons (Penguin, 2006). {{ISBN|978-1-59514-124-8}}
Magic's Child (Penguin, 2007). {{ISBN|9781595140647}}

;Other

How to Ditch Your Fairy (Bloomsbury, 2008). {{ISBN|978-1-59990-301-9}}
Liar (Bloomsbury, 2009). {{ISBN|978-1-59990-305-7}}
Team Human (HarperTeen, 2012), Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan. {{ISBN|978-0-06-208964-9}}
Razorhurst (Allen & Unwin, 2014). {{ISBN|9781743319437}}
My Sister Rosa (Soho Press, 2016). {{ISBN|9781616956745}}

=Short fiction=

"The Cruel Brother" (2001), Strange Horizons, 22 October"[http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011022/cruel_brother.shtml The Cruel Brother] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814121317/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011022/cruel_brother.shtml |date=14 August 2007 }}". Strange Horizons (strangehorizons.com). 22 October 2001. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" (2004) in Agog! Smashing Stories (Agog! Press), ed. Cat Sparks

Awards

Magic or Madness won the 2007 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy—as the year's best book published in the US according to American speculative fiction writers.

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction won one of Australia's Ditmar Awards in 2007, the William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review and the Susan Koppelman Award.

Her works have also been among the runners-up for several annual book awards (whose definitions of the award year may vary).

The Battle of The Sexes in Science Fiction (2002) was nominated for the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award (one of the Aurealis Awards for Australian publications), for the William J. Atheling Ditmar, and for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2003.
Magic or Madness (2005) was shortlisted for the 2006 Ethel Turner Award as well as for an Aurealis Award, best Australian YA book, and a Ditmar Award, best Science Fiction or Fantasy novel. It was nominated for the Michigan Library Association Teen Services Division "Thumbs Up Award".
Magic Lessons (2006) was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, best Australian YA book, and it was one runner-up for a Locus Award, best YA book—namely, 3rd place in the voting by Locus readers.
Daughters of Earth (2006) was shortlisted for a BSFA Award.
Liar (2009) was another 3rd-place runner-up for a Locus Award, best YA book. It was a 2010 recipient of the Davitt Award.
Razorhurst (2014) was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards 2015,{{Cite journal|title=New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/sl_magazine_summer_201516_web.pdf|journal=SL Magazine|volume= 8| issue = 4|pages=35}} and won the 2014 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel.{{cite web |title=And the winners are… |url=https://aurealisawards.org/2015/04/12/and-the-winners-are/ |website=Aurealis Awards |access-date=13 March 2023 |language=en |date=12 April 2015}}