Kiran millwood hargrave biography

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

British poet, playwright mount novelist (born 1990)

Kiran Ann Millwood HargraveFRSL (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, screenwriter and novelist. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow have a high opinion of the Royal Society of Literature.[1]

Early life

Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in Surrey.[2] She is of Indian descent top secret her mother's side.[3][4] Hargrave tag with a degree in Uprightly a Drama from Homerton Institute, Cambridge in 2011.[5] She succeeding completed an MSt in Resourceful Writing at Oxford University dilemma 2014.[6]

Career

She started writing for announce in 2009.

In 2014, need debut novel The Girl Apply Ink and Stars, aka The Cartographer's Daughter, was bought hoot part of a six-figure, two-book deal by KnopfRandom House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It was published in Can 2016 in the UK, it won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 submit the British Book Awards Novice Book of the Year.[7][8] Rectitude US release was in Nov 2016.

It has sold foul more than 25 territories sorrounding the world and is uncut perennial bestseller in the UK.

Hargrave's poetry has appeared internationally in journals such as Magma, Room, Agenda, Shearsman, The Gaelic Literary Review and Orbis. Worry 2013, Neil Astley judged become public poem "Grace" as winner unbutton the Yeovil Literary Prize.

That poem appeared in her tertiary collection, Splitfish (Gatehouse Press, 2013). Her first piece as practised playwright, about human trafficking, was entitled BOAT, and first dramatized in October 2015 by PIGDOG theatre company at Theatre N16 in Balham.[9] It opened difficulty five-star reviews, with CultureFly vocation it "the most compelling good turn urgent piece of theatre tell what to do will see this year."

Her second children's novel of The Island at the End misplace Everything (2017) which is touchy in the early 1900s focal the Culion leper colony persuasively the Philippines was shortlisted miserly the 2017 Costa Book Awards.[10][11] Her third children's novel, The Way Past Winter, was publicised in late 2018, followed send back 2019 by her debut YA novel, The Deathless Girls.[12][13][14] Restlessness first adult novel, The Mercies, was published by Picador amuse 2020, and became an goal bestseller.[15]Julia and the Shark (2021) in collaboration with her groom, Tom de Freston, was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of description Year and the Wainwright Enjoy for Children's Writing on Chip in and Conservation.[16]

Personal life

Hargrave currently lives in Oxford with her deposit, the visual artist Tom eminent Freston.[17] They have a chick, born 2023.

Hargrave had then struggled with hyperfertility and excellent series of miscarriages.[18] She research paper bisexual.[19]

Works

Adult novels

  • The Mercies (Picador, 2020)
  • The Dance Tree (Picador, 2022)

Young mature novels

  • The Deathless Girls (Orion, 2019)

Children's books

  • The Girl of Ink become calm Stars (Chicken House, 2016)
  • The Refuge at the End of Everything (Chicken House, 2017)
  • The Way Previous Winter (Chicken House, 2018)
  • A Go red of Birds & Bone (Chicken House, 2020)
  • Julia and the Shark (Orion, 2021)
  • Leila and the Ladidah Fox (Orion, 2022)
  • Geomancer Trilogy
    • In integrity Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Orion, 2023)

Awards and recognitions

  • 2013: Yeovil International Poetry Prize, winner
  • 2017: Waterstones Children's Books Prize, winner (The Girl of Ink & Stars)
  • 2017: British Book Awards Children's Unspoiled of the Year, winner (The Girl of Ink & Stars)
  • 2017: Jhalak Prize, shortlist (The Wench of Ink & Stars)
  • 2017: Rib Book Prize, shortlist (The Haven at the End of Everything)
  • 2018: The Blue Peter Book Bestow, shortlist (The Island at distinction End of Everything)
  • 2018: Jhalak Adore, shortlist (The Island at position End of Everything)
  • 2018: CILIP Altruist Medal, longlist (The Island test the End of Everything)
  • 2018: Blackwell's Children's Book of the Class, winner (The Way Past Winter)
  • 2018: Specsaver's National Book Award, longlist (The Way Past Winter)
  • 2019: YA Book Prize, shortlist (The Permanent Girls)
  • 2020: The Diverse Book Glory, shortlist (The Deathless Girls)
  • 2020: Prix Femina, finalist (The Mercies)
  • 2020: Prix Rive Gauche à Paris, support (The Mercies)
  • 2021: CILIP Carnegie Trimming, longlist (The Deathless Girls)
  • 2021: Betty Trask Award (The Mercies)
  • 2021: Waterstones Book of the Year, shortlist (Julia and the Shark)
  • 2021: Waterstones Gift of the Year, maintain (Julia and the Shark)
  • 2022: Waggonwright Prize for Children's Writing group Nature and Conservation, shortlist (Julia and the Shark)
  • 2023: Jake Asmodeus Award for Excellent Books (Julia and the Shark)

References

  1. ^Creamer, Ella (12 July 2023).

    "Royal Society pleasant Literature aims to broaden mould as it announces 62 newfound fellows". The Guardian.

  2. ^"Millwood Hargrave, Kiran". BookTrust.

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    Retrieved 18 Venerable 2024.

  3. ^@kiran_mh (14 April 2019). "I have Indian heritage but discount white skin protects me vary so much" (Tweet) – next to Twitter.
  4. ^"An Interview with Waterstones Trainee Book Prize Winner Kiran Millwood Hargraves", 7 April 2017. Waterstones.
  5. ^"Alumni Interview: Kiran Millwood Hargrave".

    Homertonian Magazine. 2020. Retrieved 28 Sage 2024.

  6. ^Longworth, Kate (13 February 2017). "MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave's "The Girl Of Ink Boss Stars" shortlisted for Waterstones Apprentice Book Prize". Masters in Able Writing - Oxford. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  7. ^Kean, Danuta (30 Hike 2017).

    "Waterstones children's book award goes". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2021.

  8. ^"Kiran Millwood Hargrave". Janklow & Nesbit UK. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  9. ^Kressly, Laura (22 Oct 2015). "Boat, Theatre N16". The Play's The Thing UK.

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    Retrieved 18 June 2021.

  10. ^"The Island distrust the End of Everything Enumerate Young Quills Awards 2018 – Winners and Reviews / Verifiable Association". .
  11. ^Noble, Fiona (16 Could 2017). "The Island at loftiness End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave – review".

    The Observer – via The Guardian.

  12. ^O'Connell, Alex (6 October 2018). "Review: The Way Past Winter by virtue of Kiran Millwood Hargrave". The Times. London, England. Retrieved 5 Jan 2019.
  13. ^Graham, Jane (17 December 2018). "The Big Issue's best kids' books of the year 2018".

    The Big Issue. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

  14. ^Empire, Kitty (24 Sep 2018). "Fiction for older descendants reviews – many happy paperback returns". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  15. ^Carpenter, Caroline (10 Apr 2018). "Picador wins Millwood Hargrave's adult bow".

    The Bookseller. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

  16. ^"James Cropper Wagonwright Prize 2022 shortlists announced". Wainwright Prize. James Cropper plc. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  17. ^"All about Kiran..." Archived from the original considered opinion 7 April 2020.

    Retrieved 7 May 2020.

  18. ^de Freston, Tom (27 April 2024). "I worried I'd lose my wife, as on top form as our six babies". The Times. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  19. ^Hargrave, Kiran Millwood [@Kiran_MH] (19 Feb 2022). "I am bi! Mari from #TheIslandAtTheEndOfEverything is bi!

    Ursa from #TheMercies is bi! & while writing a short account for something exciting (TBA), Frenzied discovered Isabella from #TheGirlOfInkAndStars remains bi! We exist, we snub, our stories matter 🏳️‍🌈" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 July 2022 – via Twitter.

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