Bren MacDibble
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Bren MacDibble

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Born and raised in NZ, and after many years of travelling and some years living in Melbourne, Bren now lives in Kalbarri on Australia's sunny west coast where she runs a holiday business and writes children's novels. Her children's novels have won multiple awards and have been published in several countries. Bren writes wild adventure novels set in futures affected by environmental concerns. Bren also writes for young adults as Cally Black. Her books... HOW TO BEE published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and NZ in 2017 Old Barn Books in the UK Groundwood/Anansi in North America Helium Editions, France Miš Publishing, Slovenia Namubooks, Korea Winner: Children's Book Council of Australia Award, 2018 Winner: New Zealand Book Award, 2018 Winner: Patricia Wrightson Prize, NSW Premiers Awards, 2018 Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Prize Shortlisted: South Australian Festival Literary Prize Shortlisted: Norma K Heming Award Shortlisted: Aurealis Award THE DOG RUNNER published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2019 Old Barn Books in the UK Prunsoop Publishing in Korea Booky in China Winner: New Zealand Book Awards CYA - Junior Fiction (the Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award) 2019 Winner: Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction 2019 Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year, Younger Readers Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal UK ACROSS THE RISEN SEA published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2020 Old Barn Books in the UK Nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal UK Shortlisted: Wright Family Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction in the NZ Book Awards for Children and YA 2021 Shortlisted: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Writing for Children for 2020 Shortlisted: Patricia Wrightson Prize for Chidren's Literature in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 Shortlisted: Best Children's Fiction in the Aurealis Awards 2020 THE RAVEN'S SONG written with Zana Fraillon and published by Allen & Unwin in Aus/NZ in 2022 Old Barn Books in the UK Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia Shortlisted: WA Premiers Prize www.macdibble.com www.callyblack.com
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