Lian Tanner
{{short description|Australian writer}}
{{Use Australian English|date=April 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Lian Tanner
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|3|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tasmania, Australia
| occupation = Writer
| period = 2009–present
| genre = Children's fiction
| website = {{URL|http://liantanner.com.au/}}
}}
Lian Tanner (born 17 March 1951 in Tasmania, Australia{{cite web |title=Tanner, Lian |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010009678.html |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |publisher=U.S. Library of Congress |access-date=June 7, 2018}}) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.{{cite web |title=Lian Tanner: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle |url=https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Tanner/e/B0039T3N0S |website=www.amazon.com |access-date=28 February 2012}}
Tanner is the author of the fantasy Keepers trilogy of children's books. Museum of Thieves the first book in the series was published in 2010. It has been published in Australia, the US and India and translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian.{{Cite web|title=Museum of Thieves: The Keepers 1 - Lian Tanner|url=https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/childrens/Museum-of-Thieves-The-Keepers-1-Lian-Tanner-9781742376561|access-date=2021-12-11|website=Allen & Unwin - Australia}}
Prior to writing fiction Tanner held a number of jobs including as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea. She has also worked as a journalist, editor and an actor. Tanner was in the feminist folk band The Ovarian Sisters in the 1970s and 80s.{{Cite web|date=2021-07-28|title=What do a crime solving chicken and a 1970s feminist folk band have in common?|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio/hobart/programs/your-afternoon/lian-tanner-clara-the-chook-ovarian-sisters/13474008|access-date=2021-12-11|website=ABC Radio|language=en-AU}}{{Citation|title=THE OVARIAN SISTERS 'Beat Your Breasts' (full album)| date=19 July 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJ-SUmWCdI|language=en|access-date=2021-12-11}}
Awards
Tanner's book Museum of Thieves attracted a number of accolades. It won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction,{{Cite web|last=CircleSoft|title=Museum of Thieves (#1 The Keepers)|url=https://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/p/fiction-museum-of-thieves-keepers-1|access-date=2021-12-11|website=The Women's Bookshop|language=en}} was a Notable Book in the 2011 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Independent Booksellers' Award and the Australian Speech Pathologists' Award. In addition Museum of Thieves was selected by Bank Street Children's Book Committee as one of the Best Children's Books of the Year. It was one of the "50 Books You Can’t Put Down" in the 2011 Australian "Get Reading!" Campaign,{{Cite web|title=50 Books You Can't Put Down 2011|url=https://www.betterreading.com.au/book_list/50-books-you-cant-put-down-2011-2/|access-date=2021-12-11|website=Better Reading|language=en-US}} and was named as a "White Raven" by the International Youth Library in Munich.{{Cite web|last=says|first=Romi|date=2011-03-22|title=Aurealis Award Shortlist - and White Ravens · Lian Tanner|url=https://liantanner.com.au/aurealis-award-shortlist-and-white-ravens/|access-date=2021-12-11|website=Lian Tanner|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2016-11-08|title=Lian Tanner|url=https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/lian-tanner/|access-date=2021-12-11|website=Book Series in Order}}
City of Lies, the second book in the Keepers trilogy, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction. In 2020 Tanner and illustrator Jonathan Bentley won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Ella and the Ocean.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-26/tara-june-winch-the-yield-wins-nsw-premiers-literary-awards/12187480|title=Novel celebrating Wiradjuri language wins Book of the Year at major literary awards|last=Evans|first=Kate Evans|date=2020-04-26|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-04-26}} Tanner won the 2021 Children's crime novel Davitt Award for A Clue for Clara.{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-08-30|title=Davitt Awards winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/08/30/192250/davitt-awards-winners-announced-3/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
Books
= ''The Keepers'' =
- Museum of Thieves (2010){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Museum of thieves |date=2010 |publisher=Delacorte Press |isbn=9780385739054 |url=https://archive.org/details/museumofthieves00tann |language=en }}
- City of Lies (2011){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=City of Lies |date=2011 |publisher=Delacorte Press |isbn=9780385739061 |language=en}}
- Path of Beasts (2012){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Path of beasts |date=2012 |publisher=Delacorte Press |isbn=978-0385907705 |language=en |url=https://archive.org/details/pathofbeasts00tann }}
= ''The Hidden'' =
- Icebreaker (2013){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Ice Breaker 1 |date=2013 |publisher=Allen&Unwin |isbn=9781743314340 |language=en}}
- Sunker's Deep (2014){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Sunker's Deep. 2 |date=2014 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=9781743435427 |language=en}}
- Fetcher's Song (2016);{{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Fetcher's song |date=2016 |publisher=A & U Children |isbn=9781743319420 |language=en}} published as Battlesong{{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Battlesong |date=2018 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-1250158710 |language=en}} in the United States{{cite web |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Are Fetcher's Song and Battlesong the same... — Lian Tanner Q&A |url=https://www.goodreads.com/questions/1051586-are-fetcher-s-song-and-battlesong-the-same |website=www.goodreads.com |access-date=24 July 2018 |quote=yes, they're the same book.}} (comment by author)
= ''The Rogues'' =
- Accidental Heroes (2017){{Cite book|title=Accidental Heroes|last=Tanner|first=Lian|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2017|isbn=9781760293529|location=Crows Nest, NSW|oclc=999396579}}
- Secret Guardians (2018){{Cite book|title=Secret Guardians|last=Tanner|first=Lian|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2018|isbn=9781760293536|location=Crows Nest, NSW|oclc=1043087606}}
- Haunted Warriors (2019){{Cite book |title=Haunted Warriors: The Rogues 3 |last=Tanner |first=Lian |publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2019|isbn=9781760293543 |location=Crows Nest, NSW |oclc=1111182835}}
= Standalone =
- Rats! (2009){{cite book |last1=Tanner |first1=Lian |title=Rats! |date=2004 |publisher=Lothian |isbn=0734406606 |language=en}}
- Ella and the Ocean (2019){{Cite book |last=Tanner |first=Lian |title=Ella and the Ocean |publisher=Allen & Unwin |others=illustrated by Jonathan Bentley |year=2019 |isbn=9781760633691 |location=Crows Nest, NSW |oclc=1110722590}}
- A Clue for Clara (2020){{Cite book |last=Tanner |first=Lian |title=A Clue for Clara |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=2020 |isbn=9781760877699 |location=Crows Nest, NSW |oclc=1154423898}}
- Rita's Revenge (2022){{Cite book |last=Tanner |first=Lian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1317747911 |title=Rita's Revenge |date=2022 |publisher=Allen & Unwin Childrens Books |isbn=978-1-76106-600-9 |location=Crows Nest, NSW |oclc=1317747911}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://liantanner.com.au/}}
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