Polly Ho-Yen is an English author who writes books for both younger and older children and has also written a novel for adults.

Biography

Ho-Yen was born in Northampton and grew up in Buckinghamshire. She studied English at the

University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...

and worked both in publishing and as a primary school teacher. Her debut novel, ''The Boy In The Tower'' (2014), was shortlisted for 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, ...

, the Federation of Children's Book Groups Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. Her first adult novel, ''Dark Lullaby'' was published in 2021. Ho-Yen is based in Bristol, where she set up the Bristol Teen Book Award for Bristol secondary schools.

Published works

For children

For adults

References

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* Living people English writers English children's writers 21st-century English women writers Writers from Buckinghamshire Year of birth missing (living people) {{England-writer-stub