Lian Tanner (born 17 March 1951 in
Tasmania
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, Australia) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania.
Tanner is the author of the fantasy Keepers trilogy of children's books. ''Museum of Thieves'' the first book in the series was published in 2011. It has been published in Australia, the US and India and translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese and Bulgarian.
Prior to writing fiction Tanner held a number of jobs including as a teacher in Australia and
Papua New Guinea
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. She has also worked as a journalist, editor and an actor.
Tanner was in the feminist folk band
The Ovarian Sisters
The Ovarian Sisters were an Australian feminist folk band from Tasmania who were active in the 1970s and 1980s.
Members of The Ovarian Sisters were Sue Edmonds (vocals, banjo, guitar, drums, mouth organ), Lian Tanner (vocals, guitar), Mary A ...
in the 1970s and 80s.
Awards
Tanner's book ''Museum of Thieves'' attracted a number of accolades. It won the 2010
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.
History
The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ...
Excellence in Fiction: Children's Long Fiction,
was a Notable Book in the 2011
Australian Children's Book of the Year Award
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and was shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Independent Booksellers' Award and the Australian Speech Pathologists' Award.
In addition ''Museum of Thieves'' was selected by Bank Street Children's Book Committee as one of the 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
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in
Munich
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.
''City of Lies'', the second book in the Keepers trilogy, won the 2011 Aurealis Award for Children's Fiction. In 2020 Tanner and illustrator Jonathan Bentley won the
Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for ''Ella and the Ocean''.
Tanner won the 2021 Children's crime novel
Davitt Award
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for ''A Clue for Clara.''
Books
* ''Rats!'' (2009)
*''Ella and the Ocean'' (2019)
*''A Clue for Clara'' (2020)
The Keepers series:
* ''Museum of Thieves'' (2010)
* ''City of Lies'' (2011)
* ''Path of Beasts'' (2012)
The Hidden series:
* ''Icebreaker'' (2013)
* ''Sunker's Deep'' (2014)
* ''Fetcher's Song'' (2016); published as ''Battlesong'' in the United States
The Rogues trilogy:
* ''Accidental Heroes'' (2017)
* ''Secret Guardians'' (2018)
*''Haunted Warriors'' (2019)
References
External links
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Australian children's writers
1951 births
Living people
21st-century Australian novelists