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Australian young adult author

Fiona Anna Wood is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. She is a three-time winner of the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers award.

Career

Fiona Wood is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. She worked for 12 years as a scriptwriter for television series, including episodes of Neighbours, Home and Away and MDA, before her first novel, Six Impossible Things, was published in 2010.

Works

Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (2010), Six impossible things, Pan Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-330-42606-0
Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (2013), Wildlife, Pan Macmillan Australia, ISBN 978-1-74261-231-7
Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna); Baker & Taylor Axis 360 (2015), Cloudwish, Pan Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-74353-985-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Crowley, Cath; Howell, Simmone; Wood, Fiona (Fiona Anna) (2017), Take three girls (First ed.), Pan Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-74261-274-4

Awards and recognition

Six Impossible Things
- Winner, Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction, 2008
- Shortlisted, CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2011
- Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2014
- Shortlisted, YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards), 2016

Wildlife
- Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award, 2013
- Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Award, 2014
- Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize, 2014
- Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2014
- Shortlisted, Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, Fiction for Year 7–9, 2015
- Honour book, Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), Fiction for years 7–9, 2015

Cloudwish

- Winner, Indie Award, Best Young Adult (Independent Booksellers Awards), 2016
- Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2016
- Shortlisted, ABIA Awards (Australian Book Industry Awards)
- Shortlisted, WA Young Readers' Book Award

Take Three Girls

- Winner, CBCA, Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2018
- Shortlisted, Gold Inky Award
- Shortlisted, Indie Award (Independent Booksellers Awards)

References

^ "Fiona Wood". Varuna. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"Fiona Wood". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"Queensland Literary Awards 2013 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2014 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 8 April 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2014 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"REAL Awards 2015 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"KOALAs 2015 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 10 November 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
"'The Natural Way of Things' wins Indie Book of the Year for 2016". Books+Publishing. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

External links

Official website
Fiona Wood at IMDb

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2010–2019	Jarvis 24 by David Metzenthen (2010) The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett (2011) The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner (2012) Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (2013) Wildlife by Fiona Wood (2014) The Protected by Claire Zorn (2015) Cloudwish by Fiona Wood (2016) One Would Think The Deep by Claire Zorn (2017) Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley, Fiona Wood and Simmone Howell (2018) Between Us by Clare Atkins (2019)
2020–present	This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield (2020) The End of the World Is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell (2021) Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim (2022) Neverlanders by Tom Taylor (2023) Grace Notes by Karen Comer (2024)
Picture Book (1955–present) Early Childhood (2001–present) Younger Readers (1982–present) Eve Pownall Award for Information Books (1988–present)

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