Vikki Wakefield
Australian young adult fiction writer
Vikki Wakefield (born 1970)[1] is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction.
Career
After a career working in banking, journalism and graphic design, Wakefield studied at TAFE and began writing.[2]
Her first book, All I Ever Wanted, was published in 2011 and won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the same year.[3] Two years later her second book, Friday Brown, won the same prize.[4] It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.[5] In 2016 her third book, Inbetween Days, was an honour book in the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.[6]
Wakefield's fourth book, Ballad for a Mad Girl, won the 2018 Davitt Award for best young adult novel[7] and was shortlisted for other awards.
This is How We Change the Ending, her fifth novel won the 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.[8] It was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults,[9] the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards' Young Adult Book Award[10] and the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Young Adult Fiction Award.[11] This is How We Change the Ending, was also longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.[12]
Works
- All I Ever Wanted, Text Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781921758300
- Friday Brown, Text Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9781921921469
- Inbetween Days, Text Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781922182364
- Ballad for a Mad Girl, Text Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781925355291
- This is How We Change the Ending, Text Publishing, 2019, ISBN 9781922268136
References
- ^ Wakefield, Vikki (2011). All I ever wanted. Melbourne : The Text Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-921834-38-7.
- ^ "Career path: Vikki Wakefield". CityMag. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "Previous award winners by category". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Department of Communications and the Arts. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "CBCA Awards 2016 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "'And Fire Came Down' wins best novel at 2018 Davitt Awards". Books+Publishing. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "CBCA Book of the Year 2020 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- ^ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ "See the 2020 Stella Prize longlist!". The Booktopian. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
External links
- Official website
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Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers
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