Anna Fienberg


Anna Fienberg is an Australian writer of young adult fiction and children's literature.

Biography

Fienberg was born in 1956 in England before moving to Australia at the age of three. She has worked as an editor for School Magazine. In 1988 her first work was published, entitled Billy Bear and the Wild Winter. In 1989 Fienberg released her first novel, The Nine Lives of Balthazar. She has won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers in 1992 for The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels and has been a short-list nominee on four other occasions. Fienberg has also won the Alan Marshall Award for Children's Literature in 1993 for Ariel, Zed & the Secret of Life and the 2003 Aurealis Award for best children's short fiction for Tashi and the Haunted House. She has also been an Aurealis Award finalist on four other occasions. Fienberg was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to literature as an author".

Novels

  • The Nine Lives of Balthazar
  • Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life
  • Power to Burn
  • Borrowed Light
  • The Witch in the Lake
  • Horrendo's Curse
  • ''Number 8''

    Chapter books

Tashi
  • Tashi
  • Tashi and the Giants
  • Tashi and the Ghosts
  • Tashi and the Genie
  • Tashi and the Baba Yaga
  • Tashi and the Demons
  • Tashi and the Big Stinker
  • Tashi and the Dancing Shoes
  • Tashi and the Haunted House
  • Tashi and the Royal Tomb
  • There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi
  • Tashi Lost in the City
  • Tashi and the Forbidden Room
  • Tashi and the Stolen Bus
  • Tashi and the Mixed-up Monster
  • Tashi and the Phoenix
  • Tashi and the Golem
Other books
  • Billy Bear and the Wild Winter
  • Wiggy and Boa
  • Dead Sailors Don't Bite
  • ''Pirate Trouble for Wiggy and Boa''

    Collections

  • X-Change: Stories for a New Century
  • The Big, Big, Big Book of Tashi. Includes Tashi, Tashi and the Giants, Tashi and the Ghosts, Tashi and the Genie, Tashi and the Baba Yaga, Tashi and the Demons, Tashi and the Big Stinker.
  • Tashi: 2 Books in One
  • The Second Big Big Book of Tashi. Includes Tashi and the Dancing Shoes, Tashi and the Haunted House, Tashi and the Royal Tomb, Tashi Lost in the City, and Tashi and the Forbidden Room.
  • The Great Big Enormous Book of Tashi
  • Minton Goes!: Underwater & Home at Last
  • Minton Goes!: Driving and Trucking
  • ''Minton Goes!: Sailing and Flying''

    Picture books

Minton
  • Minton Goes Flying
  • Minton Goes Sailing
  • Minton Goes Driving
  • Minton Goes Trucking
  • Minton Goes Home
  • Minton Goes Under
Other books
  • The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels
  • The Hottest Boy Who Ever Lived
  • Madeline the Mermaid and Other Fishy Tales
  • ''Joseph''

    Short fiction

  • "Eyeball to Eyeball" in ''Weird: Twelve Incredible Tales''

    Other works

  • Eddie
  • Con the Whiz Kid
  • The Champion
  • My Goldie
  • Stefano's Nonna
  • A Teddy for Louise, Please
  • Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
  • Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Meet Little Obelia
  • Snugglepot and Cuddlepie at Sea
  • Cuddlepie Goas to the Dentist
  • The world of May Gibbs
  • The Doll's Secret
  • Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and the Banksia Men
  • Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Go Home
  • Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina
  • Escape
  • ''The Amazing Tashi Activity Book''

    Animation

  • Tashi

    Nominations and awards

Alan Marshall Award
  • Children's Literature
  • *1993: Win: Ariel, Zed & the Secret of Life
Aurealis Awards
  • Best children's short fiction
  • *2002: Win: Tashi and the Haunted House
  • *2003: Nomination: Tashi and the Royal Tomb
  • *2004: Nomination: There Was Once a Boy Called Tashi
  • *2007: Nomination: Tashi and the Mixed-up Monster
  • Best young-adult novel
  • *2001: Nomination: The Witch in the Lake
CBCA Book of the Year Award
  • Older Readers
  • *1999: Nomination: Borrowed Light
  • Younger Readers
  • *1988: Nomination: Wiggy and Boa
  • *1992: Win: The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels
  • *1996: Nomination: Tashi
  • *2001: Nomination: Joseph
  • * 2014