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Born and raised in NZ, and after many years of travelling and some years living in Melbourne, Bren now lives in Kalbarri on Australia's sunny west coast where she runs a holiday business and writes children's novels. Her children's novels have won multiple awards and have been published in several countries. Bren writes wild adventure novels set in futures affected by environmental concerns. Bren also writes for young adults as Cally Black.
Her books...
HOW TO BEE published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and NZ in 2017
Old Barn Books in the UK
Groundwood/Anansi in North America
Helium Editions, France
Miš Publishing, Slovenia
Namubooks, Korea
Winner: Children's Book Council of Australia Award, 2018
Winner: New Zealand Book Award, 2018
Winner: Patricia Wrightson Prize, NSW Premiers Awards, 2018
Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Prize
Shortlisted: South Australian Festival Literary Prize
Shortlisted: Norma K Heming Award
Shortlisted: Aurealis Award
THE DOG RUNNER published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2019
Old Barn Books in the UK
Prunsoop Publishing in Korea
Booky in China
Winner: New Zealand Book Awards CYA - Junior Fiction (the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award) 2019
Winner: Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction 2019
Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year, Younger Readers
Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal UK
ACROSS THE RISEN SEA published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2020
Old Barn Books in the UK
Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal UK
Shortlisted: Wright Family Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction in the NZ Book Awards for Children and YA 2021
Shortlisted: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Writing for Children for 2020
Shortlisted: Patricia Wrightson Prize for Chidren's Literature in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021
Shortlisted: Best Children's Fiction in the Aurealis Awards 2020
THE RAVEN'S SONG written with Zana Fraillon and published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2022
Old Barn Books in the UK
Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia
Shortlisted: WA Premiers Prize
www.macdibble.com
www.callyblack.com