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Katya Balen (born 1989) is a British author of children's literature. Her works include The Space We're In (2019), The Light in Everything (2022), and The Thames and Tide Club (2023). Her 2020 novel October, October won the 2022 Carnegie Medal .
About Me. I’m Katya - I’m a children’s writer from London, England. I live with my partner and our two dogs - Raffi is a very old lurcher and Mouse is a little whippet. Before I was a writer I worked in special schools and for social care, as well as running a small charity that put on creative workshops for neurodivergent people.
Jan 17, 2023 · Katya Balen. Children's. The double Carnegie Award winning author on championing children's writing, lockdown origami and breaking down boy-girl gender stereotypes in her writing.
Jun 16, 2022 · A ‘slightly surreal’ experience is how the Yoto Carnegie Medal winner, Katya Balen describes being told she had won both the coveted Medal and the accolade of also being the Shadowers’ Choice winner. She was in rural France with her mother and father when she received the news.
Katya Balen, whose novel October, October won the Carnegie Medal, tells ReadingZone about her new book, Ghostlines. Set in a small island community whose families have lived there for generations, it follows what happens when a boy arrives from the mainland.
KATYA BALEN is a British author who studied English at university. Her novels include her debut novel, The Space We’re In, October, Otober which won the Yoto Carnegie Medal in 2022, and The Light in Everything which was published in 2022.
Katya Balen is the author of October, October (4.38 avg rating, 3938 ratings, 742 reviews, published 2020), The Space We're In (4.42 avg rating, 922 rati...
