Christine Harris (author)
Christine Harris | |
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Born | 1955 (age 69–70) Mile End, South Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Genre | Children's, fantasy, science fiction, horror, young adult, historical |
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Christine Harris (born 1955) is an Australian writer of children's and young adult with works both in speculative fiction and historical fiction.
Biography
[edit ]Christine Harris was born in Mile End, South Australia in 1955.[1] In 1992 Harris' first book was released, entitled Outer Face which was a collection of 14 of her short stories.[1] She has since released numerous other short stories and released three other collections. Harris has also had published over ten novels including three series, written seven poems and released a picture book and two anthologies.[1] [2] She has won or been nominated for various awards including the 1999 Aurealis Award best horror novel for Foreign Devil , and the 2009 White Ravens Award for Audrey of the Outback, among others.[3] She was joint winner of the 2009 Children's Peace Literature Award for Audrey Goes to Town.[4]
Bibliography
[edit ]Novels
[edit ]Vibes
[edit ]Hot Shots
[edit ]- Brain Drain (2001)
- Windbag (2001)
- Psycho Gran (2001)
Spy Girl
[edit ]Audrey of the Outback
[edit ]- It's a Miroocool! Picture book (2012)
- Audrey of the Outback (2008)
- Audrey Goes to Town (2008)
- Audrey's Big Secret (2009)
Raven Lucas
[edit ]- Missing (2012)
- Dead Wrong (2012)
Other novels
[edit ]- Strike! (1994)
- Outer Face (1995)
- Countdown (1995)
- Baptism of Fire (1996)
- Pitt Man (1996)
- Deadly Friends (1997)
- Slime Time (1997)
- Torture Chamber (1997)
- Foreign Devil (1999)
- Omega (2000)
- Jamil's Shadow (2001)
- Hairy Legs (2001)
- Halfway Round The World (2001)
- Head Space (2004)
- Outback: The Diary of Jimmy Porter 1927-1928 (2005)
- Cool Bananas (2007)
- Mask of the Jackal (2007)
Collections
[edit ]- Outer Face (1992)
- Buried Secrets (1993)
- Widdershins (aka Party Animals) (1995)
- Fortune Cookies (1998)
- Warped (2000)
Omnibuses
[edit ]- Mystery Stories for Girls (2006) (part of the 7 Sister Mysteries with Ellen Miles)
- Freaks (2007) (features Torture Chamber, Wally the Undead, and Slime Time)
Plays
[edit ]- Break a Leg (2001)
Chapter books
[edit ]- It Came from the Lab (1999)
- Brain Drain (2001)
Picture books
[edit ]- Sleeping In (1997)
- I Don't Want to Go to School (2000)
- Snowy's Rescue (2007)
Non-fiction
[edit ]- Trees in My Ears: Children from Around the World Talk to Christine Harris (1992)
- Oddballs (1998)
- Little Book of Elephants (2000)
Poems
[edit ]- Suffocating (2000) in Warped
- Mesmerised (2000) in Warped
- Sick (2000) in Warped
- Splatter (2000) in Warped
- Scream (2000) in Warped
- Sharp (2000) in Warped
- Control (2000) in Warped
Short fiction
[edit ]- "Aliens Sprom Outer Face" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Jenny and Mouse" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Second Hand" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Mirror Door" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Not Bad for a City Kid" (1992) in Outer Face
- "All About Lavinia" (1992) in Outer Face
- "The Book of Spells" (1992) in Outer Face
- "A Bad Year" (1992) in Outer Face
- "The Boarder" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Minding the Gum" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Knocked Out" (1992) in Outer Face
- "When the Dragon Raises Its Head" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Perfect Target" (1992) in Outer Face
- "What Mingumma Never Saw" (1992) in Outer Face
- "Seeing Is Believing" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Zorro Strikes Again" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Black Widow Women" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Metal Mouth" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Longing for William" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Shadows" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Alex and Alex" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "The Missing Finger" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Martin John Davis" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "My Worst Nightmare" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "The Dream" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Waiting for Paris" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Welcome Back" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Madonna and the Big Night Out" (1993) in Buried Secrets
- "Perfect Replica" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Bedroom Spy" (1995) in Widdershins
- "The Haunting of Clayton Quinn" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Party Animal" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Not Much Time" (1995) in Widdershins
- "My Enemy" (1995) in Widdershins
- "A Sort of Agent" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Throwback" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Widdershins" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Any Day" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Dinner at the Tumbling Turnip" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Monique and the Animal" (1995) in Widdershins
- "Quadruple Babes" (1995) in Widdershins
- "A Real Corpse" (1997) in Shivers: A Real Corpse / Spook Bus (ed. Paul Collins)
- "Rent-A-Crowd" (1997) in Deadly Friends (ed. Claire Carmichael, Margaret Clark, Christine Harris)
- "Hungry Ghosts" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Made in Australia" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Like Father Like Son" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Dear Alice" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Dancing on the Carpet (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Any Day" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Another Burger" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "A Good Name" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "Orange Umbrellas" (1998) in Fortune Cookies
- "The Trap" (2000) in Tales from the Wasteland: Stories from the 13th Floor (ed. Paul Collins)
- "Warped" (2000) in Warped
- "A Stupid Dream" (2000) in Warped
- "Ho Blasted Ho!" (2000) in Warped
- "Make-Believe" (2000) in Warped
- "What About Me?" (2000) in Warped
- "Truth-Dare-Doubledare" (2000) in Warped
- "Use-By Date" (2000) in Warped
- "Love at First Byte" (2000) in Warped
- "Weaver Street Junkie" (2000) in Warped
- "Deciding the Future" (2000) in Warped
- "Alibi" (2000) in Warped
- "Outside the Universe" (2000) in Warped
- "The Class Mascot" (2000) in Warped
- "Together" (2000) in Warped
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c "Christine Harris – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB . Retrieved 1 January 2010.
- ^ "Christine Harris". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
- ^ "Awards Won". christineharris.com.au. Archived from the original on 24 December 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
- ^ "Children's Peace Literature Award". AustLit. Archived from the original on 21 November 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2019.