Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist.

Biography

Hargrave graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, and Oxford University in 2014.

She started writing for publication in 2009. In 2014, her debut novel The Girl Of Ink and Stars aka The Cartographer's Daughter was bought as part of a six-figure, two-book deal by Knopf Random House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It was published in May 2016 in the UK, where it won the overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Award’s Children’s Book of the Year.[1] The US release was in November 2016. It has sold to over twenty-five territories around the world, and is a perennial bestseller in the UK.

Hargrave's poetry has appeared internationally in journals such as Magma, Room, Agenda, Shearsman, The Irish Literary Review and Orbis. In 2013, Neil Astley judged her poem 'Grace' winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize. This poem appears in her third collection, Splitfish (Gatehouse Press, 2013). Her first piece as a playwright, about human trafficking, was entitled "BOAT", and first dramatized in October 2015 by PIGDOG theatre company at Theatre N16 in Balham. It opened to five-star reviews, with CultureFly calling it 'the most compelling and urgent piece of theatre you will see this year.'

Her second children's novel of a fragile paradise, The Island at the End of Everything (2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards. Her third children's novel, The Way Past Winter, was published in late 2018, followed in 2019 by her debut YA novel, The Deathless Girls. [2][3][4] Her first adult novel, The Mercies was published by Picador in 2020, and became an instant bestseller.[5]

She currently lives in Oxford with her husband, the visual artist Tom de Freston.[6]

Awards
  • 2014: Yeovil International Poetry Prize, winner
  • 2017: Waterstones Children's Books Prize, winner (The Girl of Ink & Stars)
  • 2017: British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, winner (The Girl of Ink & Stars)
  • 2017: Costa Book Prize, shortlist (The Island at the End of Everything)
  • 2018: The Blue Peter Book Award, shortlist (The Island at the End of Everything)
  • 2018: Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year, winner (The Way Past Winter)
  • 2019: The YA Book Prize, shortlist (The Deathless Girls)
  • 2020: Prix Femina, finalist (The Mercies)
  • 2020: Prix Rive Gauche à Paris, winner (The Mercies)

References
  1. "Kiran Millwood Hargrave". Janklow & Nesbit UK. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. O’Connell, Alex (6 October 2018). "Review: The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave". The Times. London, England. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. Graham, Jane (17 December 2018). "The Big Issue's best kids' books of the year 2018". The Big Issue. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  4. Empire, Kitty (24 September 2018). "Fiction for older children reviews – many happy book returns". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  5. "Picador wins Millwood Hargrave's adult bow". The Bookseller. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  6. "All about Kiran..." kiranmillwoodhargrave.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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