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,