Lian Tanner has worked as a teacher, a tourist bus driver, a juggler, an editor and a professional actor. She has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. It took her a while to realise that all this was preparation for becoming a writer.
Lian’s best-selling Keepers Trilogy has been translated into eleven languages and won two consecutive Aurealis Awards for Best Australian Children’s Fantasy. The Hidden series was shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards and received three starred reviews from School Library Journal (USA). The Rogues trilogy has also been shortlisted for two Aurealis Awards.
Lian’s first picture book, Ella and the Ocean, illustrated by Jonathan Bentley, won the 2020 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature, as part of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her latest novel, A Clue for Clara, won the 2021 Sisters-in-Crime Davitt Award for Best Children’s Crime Novel. A companion novel, Rita’s Revenge, will be published by Allen & Unwin in July 2022.
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This podcast episode is produced by Jen Pitch: @virtualcreatrix