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Patricia Wrightson


Australia (1921 - 2010)

Patricia Wrightson is one of Australia's most distinguished writers for children. Her books have won many prestigious awards all over the world. She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in 1977, the Dromkeen Medal in 1984 and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986, all for her services to children's literature. She is a four-time winner of the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award: in 1956 for The Crooked Snake, in 1974 for The Nargun and the Stars, in 1978 for The Ice Is Coming and in 1984 for A Little Fear.Patricia lives and writes in a beautiful stretch of the Australian bush beside the Clarence River in northern New South Wales.
 


Genres: Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
Wirrun
   1. The Ice Is Coming (1977)
   2. The Dark Bright Water (1979)
   3. Journey Behind the Wind (1981)
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Novels
   Crooked Snake (1955)
   The Feather Star (1962)
   Down to Earth (1965)
   Rocks of Honey (1966)
   I Own the Racecourse! (1968)
   Racecourse for Andy (1968)
   An Older Kind of Magic (1972)
   The Bunyip Hole (1973)
   The Nargun and the Stars (1973)
   Behind the Wind (1981)
   A Little Fear (1983)
   Night Outside (1985)
   Moon-dark (1987)
   Balyet (1989)
   The Sugar-Gum Tree (1991)
   Shadows of Time (1995)
   Rattler's place (1997)
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Anthologies edited
   Beneath the Sun (1972)
   Emu Stew (1976)
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Award nominations
1982 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Journey Behind the Wind
1982 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Behind the Wind
1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Dark Bright Water


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