Judith Clarke


Judith Clarke was an Australian best-selling author of short stories for children and young adults.

Life

Clarke was born on 24 August 1943 and raised in Sydney. She worked as a teacher, lecturer and librarian. She graduated from the University of New South Wales, and Australian National University.
Clarke died on 14 May 2020 in Melbourne.

Awards

  • Young People's Talking Book of the Year Award from the Variety Club
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book in Fiction and Poetry, for Kalpana's Dream
  • Children's Books of the Year Awards Winner-Children's Book Council of Australia, for Wolf on the Fold
  • Children's Books of the Year Awards Honor, Older Readers, for Night Train, by the Children's Book Council of Australia
  • Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Winner, by Young Adult Fiction-State Library of Victoria, Australia
  • Queensland Premier’s Literary Young Adult Book Award winner for One Whole and Perfect Day
  • Michael L. Printz Honor Book, for One Whole and Perfect Day
  • Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction shortlisted for ''My Lovely Frankie''

    Works

  • The boy on the lake: stories of the supernatural, University of Queensland Press, 1989,
  • Riffraff, H. Holt, 1992,
  • , University of Queensland Press, 1994,
  • Panic stations, University of Queensland Press, 1995,
  • Big Night Out, Shorts, 1995,
  • Lost Day, Puffin Books, 1997,
  • Nighttrain, Puffin, 1998,
  • Starry Nights, Allen & Unwin, 2001,
  • Wolf on the Fold, Allen & Unwin, 2002,
  • , Allen & Unwin, 2004,
  • , Allen & Unwin, 2006, ;
  • , Allen & Unwin, 2009,
  • Capsella series
  • *The heroic life of Al Capsella, University of Queensland Press, 1988,
  • *Al Capsella takes a vacation, Holt, 1993,
  • My Lovely Frankie, Allen & Unwin, 2017,