Lian Tanner

Lian Tanner
Born (1951-03-17) March 17, 1951
Tasmania, Australia
Occupation Writer
Period 2009–present
Genre Children's fiction
Website
liantanner.com.au

Lian Tanner (born March 17, 1951, in Tasmania, Australia[1]) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.[2]

Her book Museum of Thieves, the first book in the middle-grade Keepers trilogy, won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Children Fiction, was a Notable Book in the 2011 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, was shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Independent Booksellers' Award and the Australian Speech Pathologists' Award, and was selected as one of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s Best Children’s Books of the Year. It was one of the "50 Books You Can’t Put Down" in the 2011 Australian "Get Reading!" Campaign, and was named as a "White Raven" by the International Youth Library in Munich. Museum of Thieves is published in Australia, the USA and India. It has also been translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese and Bulgarian.

City of Lies, the second book in the Keepers trilogy, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction.

Books

  • Rats! (2009)[3]

The Keepers Series:

  • Museum of Thieves (2010)[4]
  • City of Lies (2011)[5]
  • Path of Beasts (2012)[6]

The Hidden Series:

  • Icebreaker (2013)[7]
  • Sunker's Deep (2014)[8]
  • Fetcher's Song (2016);[9] published as Battlesong[10] in the United States[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Tanner, Lian". Library of Congress Name Authority File. U.S. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lian Tanner: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.com. Amazon.com. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2004). Rats!. Lothian. ISBN 0734406606.
  4. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2010). Museum of thieves. Delacorte Press. ISBN 9780385739054.
  5. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2011). City of Lies. Delacorte Press. ISBN 9780385739061.
  6. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2012). Path of beasts. Delacorte Press. ISBN 0385907702.
  7. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2013). Ice Breaker 1. Allen&Unwin. ISBN 9781743314340.
  8. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2014). Sunker's Deep. 2. ISBN 9781743435427.
  9. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2016). Fetcher's song. A & U Children. ISBN 9781743319420.
  10. ↑ Tanner, Lian (2018). Battlesong. Faber & Faber. ISBN 1250158710.
  11. ↑ Tanner, Lian. "Are Fetcher's Song and Battlesong the same... — Lian Tanner Q&A". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 24 July 2018. yes, they're the same book. (comment by author)
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