Lara Williamson is an Irish-born children's author.

Biography

Williamson was born and studied in Northern Ireland before moving to

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. She worked for magazines including ''

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'' and ''

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'', and was beauty editor at '' J-17''.

Writing

Her first two novels, ''A Boy Called Hope'' (2014) and ''The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair'' (2015) were published by Usborne and were shortlisted for the

Waterstones Children's Book Prize The Waterstones Children's Book Prize is an annual award given to a work of children's literature published during the previous year. First awarded in 2005, the purpose of the prize is "to uncover hidden talent in children's writing" and is there ...

and the

Blue Peter Book Award The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme '' Blue Peter''. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, ...

respectively. They were followed by ''Just call me Spaghetti-Hoop Boy'' (2017) and ''The Girl with space in her heart'' (2019), while ''Midge and Mo'' (with illustrations by Becky Cameron) was published by Stripes in 2020 and was aimed at a younger readership.

Published works

For younger readers

References

External links

* Living people Irish children's writers 21st-century writers from Northern Ireland Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub