Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Subcategory of Awards — International Awards
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History

Award managed and conferred by the Guardian newspaper, which established it in 1965 and inaugurated it in 1967. A lifetime award (awarded for a single work, but rendering authors ineligible for future rounds), the Guardian Children's Book Prize is judged by children's book authors.

Notes

  • The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize is 'the only children's book award judged by children's authors, it has been running since 1967'.

    Source: Guardian website, http://www.guardian.co.uk/
    Sighted: 01/06/2009

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2002

winner y separately published work icon Thursday's Child Sonya Hartnett , Ringwood New York (City) : Penguin , 2000 Z540722 2000 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) The creature held a great bundle of something tied up in a rag. For a moment we stared, not recognising him, but who else could it have been, who else but wandering Tin. We saw his naked limbs, his waxy skin, his discoloured hair, his hooking razor-sharp nails. He raised lashy eyes to us and we saw a face on its way to another world. Da murmured, "Jesus." Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. (Source: Trove)
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Works About this Award

Hard-Hitting Novels Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Alison Flood , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 23 May 2009;
Children's Book Prize Winner Expresses Ire Australian Associated Press , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14 October 2002; (p. 7)
Dig a Little Deeper Julia Eccleshare , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 12 October 2002;
A Child's View of Adult Realities Wins Guardian Fiction Prize John Ezard , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 11 October 2002;
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