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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.[1]

Career

Fiona Wood is a graduate of the University of Melbourne.[1] She worked for 12 years as a scriptwriter for television series, including episodes of Neighbours, Home and Away and MDA,[2] 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
• 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[1]
  • 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[3]
  • Shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Award, 2014[4]
  • Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize, 2014[5]
  • Winner, CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2014[6]
  • Shortlisted, Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, Fiction for Year 7–9, 2015[7]
  • Honour book, Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), Fiction for years 7–9, 2015[8]

• Cloudwish

• • Winner, Indie Award, Best Young Adult (Independent Booksellers Awards), 2016[9]
  • 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

External links

• Official website
• Fiona Wood at IMDb

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