“Kiran Millwood Hargrave”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in London on 29 March 1990, and started writing for publication in 2009. In 2014, her debut novel "The Girl Of Ink and Stars" aka The Cartographer's Daughter was bought as part of a six-figure, two-book deal by Knopf Random House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It was published in May 2016 in the UK, where it was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month and an instant bestseller, entering its fourth reprinting within three months of release. The US release was in November 2016. It has sold to over a dozen territories around the world.

Hargrave's poetry has appeared internationally in journals such as Magma, Room, Agenda, Shearsman, The Irish Literary Review and Orbis. In 2013, Neil Astley judged her poem 'Grace' winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize. This poem appears in her third collection, Splitfish (Gatehouse Press, 2013). Her first piece as a playwright, about human trafficking, was entitled "BOAT", and first dramatized in October 2015 by PIGDOG theatre company at Theatre N16 in Balham. It opened to five star reviews, with CultureFly calling it 'the most compelling and urgent piece of theatre you will see this year.' Her children's novel of a fragile paradise The Island at the End of Everything (2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards. Her third children's novel, The Way Past Winter, was published in late 2018.^[1]^[2]^[3] Her first adult novel will be published by Picador.^[4]

Hargrave graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, Oxford University in 2014, and currently lives in Oxford with her Husband, the visual artist Tom de Freston.

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1. ^{{cite news |last1=O’Connell |first1=Alex |title=Review: The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-the-way-past-winter-by-kiran-millwood-hargrave-x8r60wkx9 |accessdate=5 January 2019 |work=The Times |date=6 October 2018 |location=London, England}}
2. ^{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Jane |title=The Big Issue’s best kids’ books of the year 2018 |url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/the-big-issues-best-kids-books-of-the-year-2018/ |accessdate=5 January 2019 |work=The Big Issue |date=17 December 2018}}
3. ^{{cite news |last1=Empire |first1=Kitty |title=Fiction for older children reviews – many happy book returns |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/24/fiction-older-children-reviews-jacqueline-wilson-cressida-cowell-jakob-wegelius |accessdate=5 January 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=24 September 2018}}
4. ^{{cite web |title=Picador wins Millwood Hargrave’s adult bow |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/picador-wins-millwood-hargrave-s-adult-bow-764606 |website=The Bookseller |accessdate=5 January 2019 |date=10 April 2018}}

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