Sarah Crossan is an Irish author. She is best known for her books for young adults, including Apple and Rain and One, for which she has won several awards.
Biography[edit]
Crossan graduated from Warwick University in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy and Literature and later obtained a master's degree in Creative Writing. She received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing in 2010.[1] Crossan trained as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge.[2] In May 2018, she was appointed Laureate na nÓg, or Irish Children's laureate by President Michael D Higgins.
Awards[edit]
- 2013: shortlisted for Carnegie Medal for The Weight of Water[3]
- 2015: shortlisted for Carnegie Medal for Apple and Rain[4]
- 2016:
- The Bookseller' prize for young adult fiction for One[5]
- Irish Children's Book of the Year for One[6]
- Carnegie Medal for One[7]
- 2017: Red House Children's Book Award for older readers for One[8]
- 2020: Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards for the German edition of Moonrise[9]
- 2024: Nominated for the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards for the German edition of Toffee[10]
Novels[edit]
- The Weight of Water (2012)
- Breathe (2012)
- Resist (2013) – a sequel to Breathe
- Apple and Rain (2014)
- One (2015)
- We Come Apart (2017) co-authored with Brian Conaghan
- Moonrise (2017)
- Inséparable (2017)
- Swimming Pool (2018)
- Toffee [11](2019)
- Here is the Beehive (2020)[12]
- Where the Heart Should Be (March 2024)
- Hey Zoey (May/June 2024)
References[edit]
- ^ Sarah Crossan: Sarah Crossan, accessdate: 14 June 2016
- ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Sarah Crossan - Sarah Crossan". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Carnegie medal shortlist: your verdicts". The Guardian. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ Drabble, Emily (17 March 2015). "Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway 2015 shortlists announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ "Sarah Crossan's One, about conjoined twins, wins YA book prize". BBC Entertainment & Arts News. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "CBI Book of the Year Award winner is Sarah Crossan!". Children's Books Ireland. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Sarah Crossan wins the Carnegie medal with verse novel One". The Guardian. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Michael Morpurgo wins Children's Book Award for fourth time". BBC News. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ "Die Sieger des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2020". jugendliteratur.org. Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "Die Sieger des Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreises 2020". jugendliteratur.org. Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Toffee". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Here Is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan review – subversive spin on adultery". The Guardian. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
External links[edit]
- Sarah Crossan at Fantastic Fiction
- Sarah Crossan at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records