Tanya Landman is an English author of children's and young adult books. She is also a performer and scriptwriter for Storybox Theatre, a puppet theatre based in

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. She is the niece of the actor Robert Shaw.

Awards

Landman won the 2015

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Carnegie Medal for her novel ''Buffalo Soldier''. She also won a Western Writers of America 2009

Spur Award Spur Awards are literary prizes awarded annually by the Western Writers of America (WWA). The purpose of the Spur Awards is to honor writers for distinguished writing about the American West. The Spur awards began in 1953, the same year the WWA wa ...

for her novel ''I Am Apache''. Her work has also been shortlisted for numerous other awards: the 2008

Booktrust Teenage Prize The Booktrust Teenage Prize was an annual award given to young adult literature published in the UK. The prize was administered by Book Trust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading. The Booktrust Teenage Prize was last awarded in ...

for ''Apache''; the 2010

Bolton Children's Book Award The Bolton Children's Book Award is an annual award given to works of children's literature published in paperback during the previous year. The award is sponsored by Bolton Literacy Trust, The University of Bolton and Page Nation. List of prize w ...

and 2010

Red House Children's Book Award The Federation of Children's Book Groups Children's Book Award is a set of annual literary prizes for children's books published in the U.K. during the preceding calendar year. It recognises one "Overall" winner and one book in each of three cat ...

for ''Mondays are Murder''; and the 2008

Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award was a literary award that annual recognised one fiction book written for children or young adults (at least age eight) and published in the United Kingdom. It was conferred upon the author ...

for ''The Goldsmith's Daughter.''

References

External links

Tanya Landman's Website

The Storybox Theatre Website
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Carnegie Medal in Literature winners English children's writers English women writers {{England-writer-stub