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Carnegie medal-winning children’s author. Cover artwork (c) Angela Harding, Sydney Smith and Laura Carlin.
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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.
The Light in Everything. The Light in Everything was selected as a Times Children’s Book of the Year, a Sunday Times and Times Book of the Week, and a 5* Telegraph Children’s Book of the Week. It has been shortlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal, the 2023 UKLA Award and the 2023 FCBG Award.
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Katya read English at university and then completed an MPhil researching the impact of stories on autistic children's behaviour. She has worked in a variety of special needs schools as a teaching assistant, and more recently co-founded Mainspring Arts - a not-for-profit organisation that provides mentoring and creative opportunities for neurodiverg...
Ghostlines(Bloomsbury Children's Books) September 2024 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. Read a Chapter from Ghostlines Revie...
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 .
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.
Katya Balen is a children’s author. She was previously co-director of a charity that supports neurodivergent and autistic people to access creative opportunities. She studied English at university, and completed an MA researching the impact of stories on autistic children’s behaviour.
