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Margo Lanagan


Australia (b.1960)

Margo Lanagan has worked as a kitchen hand and encyclopedia seller, and spent ten years as a freelance book editor. She is now a technical writer as well as a creative one. Ms. Lanagan's critically acclaimed North American debut, "Black Juice", is a Michael L. Printz Honor Book and won two World Fantasy Awards. "Black Juice" also received the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Young Adult Fiction, a Golden Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story, and a Bram Stoker Award nomination from the Horror Writers of America. The author lives in Sydney, Australia, with her partner.
 

Awards: WFA (2010)  see all

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
 
Series
Zeroes (with Deborah Biancotti and Scott Westerfeld)
   1. Zeroes (2015)
   2. Swarm (2016)
   3. Nexus (2018)
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Novels
   Wildgame (1991)
   The Tankerman (1992)
   The Best Thing (1995)
   Touching Earth Lightly (1996)
   Walking Through Albert (1998)
   Click (2007) (with others)
   Tender Morsels (2008)
   The Brides of Rollrock Island (2012)
     aka Sea Hearts
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Collections
   White Time (2000)
   Black Juice (2004)
   Red Spikes (2007)
   Yellowcake (2013)
   Singing My Sister Down (2017)
   Phantom Limbs (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   We Three Kids (2013)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Margo Lanagan
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Fears (2024)
Tales of Psychological Horror
edited by
Ellen Datlow
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 15 (2024)
(Best Horror of the Year, book 15)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Awards
2013 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : The Brides of Rollrock Island
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story : Significant Dust
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella : Significant Dust
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story : Bajazzle
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel : The Brides of Rollrock Island
2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella : Sea-Hearts
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story : A Thousand Flowers
2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Tender Morsels
2009 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : The Goosle
2009 Ditmar Award for Best Novel : Tender Morsels
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story : A Fine Magic
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Black Juice
2005 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2004 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story : The Queen's Notice

Award nominations
2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Phantom Limbs
2018 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work (nominee) : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2016 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Zeroes
2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : We Three Kids
2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : Bajazzle
2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Significant Dust
2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Cracklescape
2013 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : Significant Dust
2013 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work (nominee) : Cracklescape
2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Brides of Rollrock Island
2012 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Yellowcake
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Isles of the Sun
2011 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : A Thousand Flowers
2011 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : Mulberry Boys
2011 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Proving of Smollett Standforth
2011 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : Into the Clouds on High
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Sea-Hearts
2010 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Sea-Hearts
2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Tender Morsels
2009 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Tender Morsels
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Tender Morsels
2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Red Spikes
2007 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Red Spikes
2007 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Point of Roses
2006 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2006 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Black Juice
2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Forever Upward
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : A Feather in the Breast of God
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Baby Jane
2006 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : Winkie
2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Black Juice
2005 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Black Juice
2004 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Singing My Sister Down: And other stories
2004 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Rite of Spring
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : White Time
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Midsummer Mission
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : The Boy Who Didn't Yearn
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story (nominee) : White Time
2000 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Boy Who Didn't Yearn


Margo Lanagan recommends
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A Hunger of Thorns (2023)
(Hunger of Thorns, book 1)
Lili Wilkinson
"A Hunger of Thorns is visceral fantasy; it tells its story not just in the bodies of young people but through all creation around them. This novel teems with life-forms real and imagined - winged, scaled, furred, barked and leaved, macro and micro, solid and almost intangible. It zooms in with scientific precision, then pivots to passionate invention. Maude's quest will take you to deep, dark, festering places and bring you soaring back out into the light. This novel resonates strongly with our uncertain times. It will give courage and hope to readers seeking their true selves and a way forward into a richer, realer life."
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On Fragile Waves (2021)
E Lily Yu
"E. Lily Yu's finely honed prose and her child narrator allow for flashes of warmth and beauty between the shocks and sorrows, the terrors and humiliations."
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Flyaway (2020)
Kathleen Jennings
"Brilliant light washes through these pages, a perfect foil for the novella's shadowy, all-too-serious battles of class, community and family. Sly visitations from imported, half-naturalised folklore add further layers of mystery and wonder to a more-than-magical tale of history's grip, the land's memory, and the harm we cannot help but do to ourselves and each other."

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