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Frances Hardinge

British writer

Frances Hardinge (born 1973) is a British children's writer. Her debut novel, Fly by Night, won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books. She has also been shortlisted for and received a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her short stories.

Early life and education

Hardinge was born in 1973 in Brighton, England, and dreamed of writing at the age of four. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and was the founder member of a writers' workshop there.^[1]^[2]

Career

Her writing career started after she won a short story magazine competition. Shortly after winning she wrote her debut novel, Fly by Night, in her spare time and showed it to Macmillan Publishers after pressure from a friend.^[1]^[2] It was published in 2005, and was listed as one of the School Library Journal Best Books and won the Branford Boase Award.^[3]^[4]^[5] Her 2015 novel The Lie Tree won the 20

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Frances' biography

Frances Hardinge is a writer who wears a black hat. Notoriously unphotographable, she is rumoured to be made entirely out of velvet. Sources close to Frances who prefer not to be named suggest that she has an Evil Twin who wears white and is hatless. This cannot be confirmed.

Frances grew up in an old house in rural Kent, England where the wind wuthered. She has always liked dark stories – when she was six, she wrote a short story that included an attempted poisoning, a faked death and a villain being thrown off a cliff – all in just one page! Later she read English at Oxford University amid medieval towers and gargoyle-strung chapels.

Frances had been writing ever since she as a child, but for years she only submitted short stories for publication. Eventually her friend, the author Rhiannon Lassiter, stole her novel and gave it to an editor at Macmillan. Frances was swiftly contracted to write the novel, Fly By Night, which was published to rave reviews. She later signed a three-book deal which enabled her to write full time.

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Frances Hardinge

This extended weekend, I will be appearing at Nine Worlds, the London-based convention for “gaming, film, cosplay, fandom, literature, science, geek culture, meeting people and having a really big party.” Here’s my schedule for the con:

Friday 7th, 5.00–6.15pm, Room 38

I Want to Be a Wild Thing When I Grow Up

Panellists: Laura Lam, Taran Matharu, Kim Curran, Ed Cox, Alex Lamb, Frances Hardinge

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