Jenny Valentine
Jenny Valentine | |
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Born | 1970 Cambridge |
Occupation | author |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Education | English literature |
Alma mater | Goldsmiths' College |
Genre | Children's literature |
Years active | 2007–present |
Notable works | Finding Violet Park |
Notable awards | Guardian Children's Fiction Prize |
Spouse | Alex Valentine |
Children | two |
Jenny Valentine (born 1970) is an English children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, Finding Violet Park (HarperCollins, 2007), she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.[1][2] Valentine lives in Glasbury-on-Wye, Wales[3] with her husband singer/songwriter Alex Valentine, with whom she runs a health food shop in nearby Hay-on-Wye.[4]
Writer
HarperCollins has published Valentine's novels in Britain and usually one year later in America.
Her critically acclaimed second novel,
"Ten Stations", a short-story prequel to Finding Violet Park, was included among 2009 World Book Day publications.[clarification needed] That year Valentine also inaugurated a series of short stories for young children entitled Iggy and Me.[12] [clarification needed]
Valentine's third novel, The Ant Colony,[13] was published in 2009.[14] By 2011 it had been published in Dutch and in German translations.[8]
Her fourth novel, The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight, was set in her home town of Hay-on-Wye.[15] It was also her fourth novel nominated for the Carnegie Medal, i. e. it was one of the year's top forty children's books published in the UK, in the estimation of librarians.[6] By 2011 it had also been published in Dutch.[8]
Valentine takes part annually in the Hay Festival.
Works
Year | Title | Publisher | Annual awards |
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2007 | Finding Violet Park (US) Me, the Missing, and the Dead |
HarperCollins |
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2008 | Broken Soup | HarperCollins | |
2009 | "Ten Stations" (short story) | UK World Book Day |
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2009 | The Ant Colony | ||
2009 | Iggy & Me (short story series) | HarperCollins | |
2010 | The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight | HarperCollins | |
2010 | Doppelganger | HarperCollins | [17] |
2010 | Iggy & me (#1) | HarperCollins | |
2010 | Iggy & me: The happy birthday (#2) | HarperCollins | [18][clarification needed] |
2010 | Iggy & me on holiday (#3) | HarperCollins | [19] |
2011 | Iggy & me and the baby (#4 | HarperCollins | [20] |
2015 | Fire Colour One | HarperCollins |
References
- ^ guardian.co.uk. 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners". guardian.co.uk 12 March 2001. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Happy Valentines (From Hereford Times)". Herefordtimes.com. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Jenny Valentine". Davidhigham.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine – Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ CILIP. Retrieved 8 August 2012. Quote: "media releases relating to the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards in date order." (2002 to 2006 releases concern 2001 to 2005 awards.)
- ^ Jenny Valentine at Fantastic Fiction.
- ^ a b c d "Valentine, Jenny". WorldCat. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ a b Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Archived 15 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Costa Book Awards
- ^ a b Booktrust Teenage Prize
- ^ "Iggy and Me: Jenny Valentine". HarperCollins. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Valentine, Jenny (15 December 2005). "The Ant Colony (Book) by Jenny Valentine (2009)". Waterstones.com. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Mary Hoffman (11 April 2009). "Review: The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine | Books". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Hot read: The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight by Jenny Valentine". Gossip Blender. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ a b Manchester Book Award Archived 21 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503638191
- ^ https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/461267185
- ^ https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/619895311
- ^ https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663437811
External links
- "The Story of My Children's Book Prize" by Valentine, theguardian.com, 9 October 2007
- Jenny Valentine at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalogue records