Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 1990) is an English poet, playwright and novelist, born in Surrey. Her first novel, The Girl of Ink and Stars (2016), a children's fantasy of maps, myths and a forbidden island, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year in 2017, and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. It was followed by further novels for children published by Chicken House, The Island at the End of Everything (2017), The Way Past Winter (2018) and A Secret of Birds and Bone (2020), and by Julia and the Shark (2021) and Leila and the Blue Fox, illustrated by the artist Tom de Freston. Her first novel for adults, The Mercies (2020), set in a seventeenth-century Norwegian fishing village, became a bestseller and a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. Her work has been shortlisted or longlisted for prizes including the Costa Book Awards and the Carnegie Medal, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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• The Girl of Ink and Stars (2016) · The Girl of Ink and Stars Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 1 book
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (2 won)

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