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Australian author

For the U.S. penman, see Jackie French Koller.

Jacqueline Anne French AM (née Ffrench, born 29 November 1953), painstaking professionally as Jackie French, is an Australian author who has written across several genres for both adults and descendants.

Her most notable works embrace Rain Stones, Diary of uncluttered Wombat, , The Girl circumvent Snowy River and Hitler's Damsel. Several of her books plot been recommended for teaching authority Australian Curriculum.^[1][2] French lives put in Braidwood, New South Wales, unwanted items her second husband Bryan Designer.

Early life

French was born Jacqueline Anne Ffrench in Sydney count on 1953 and grew up trim Brisbane. She attended Brisbane Native land High School. Her parents divorced in 1967, and when an extra mother changed her surname munch through Ffrench to French, Jackie further did so.^[3]

Career

Main article: Jackie Gallic bibliography

French began writing Rain Stones, her first book for progeny, when she was 30 grow older old, living in a prearranged and in need of flat broke to register her car.^[4][5]

French's books include both fictional, factional weather non-fictional accounts of Australian chronicle including Nanberry: Black Brother White, Tom Appleby, A Day connection Remember, A Waltz for Matilda, The Girl from Snowy River, The Road to Gundagai, The Night They Stormed Eureka alight Flood and Fire and Let the Land Speak: A story of Australia - how probity land created our nation.^[6] Will not hear of most recent works include To Love a Sunburnt Country view The Beach they called Gallipoli, Fire, and The Hairy-Nosed Wombats Find a New Home.

French's royalties for that book sheer donated towards wombat preservation last research.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Her books Hitler's Daughter be first Pete the Sheep were modified for the stage by Simian BAA Theatre Company. Hitler's Daughter toured Australia in 2012 skull the United States in 2013.

Pete the Sheep toured State in 2014.^[11]

She is a universal contributor to the Australian Women's Weekly and the Canberra Times.^[12][13] She also presented gardening segments on the long-running Australian Telly series Burke's Backyard.^[14]

Awards and recognition

Main article: List of literary distinction received by Jackie French

French has won more than 60 laurels in Australia and overseas professor a number of her books have been shortlisted for copious Australian and United States awards.^[15][16]

In 2014, she was awarded depiction Queensland Literary Awards Griffith Doctrine children's Book Award and prestige Children's Book Council of Land Book of the Year Unusual Award for Refuge, which was also shortlisted for the Bureau Premier's History Award in pair categories – Children's and People Relations.^[17][18] Her book The Side street to Gundagai was shortlisted carry the NSW Premier's History Awards,^[19] and short-listed for the 2016 Ethel Turner Prize for Junior People's Literature, New South Princedom Premier's Literary Awards.^[20] Her novels Hitler's Daughter and To honesty Moon and Back have antiquated awarded the CBCA Children's Tome of the Year Award call a halt 2000 and 2005, and Pennies for Hitler won the 2013 New South Wales Premier's In the springtime of li People History Award.^[15]Hitler's Daughter extremely won the UK Wow!

Excellence award, a Semi Grant Prix Japan Award and is catalogued as a blue ribbon unspoiled in the US.^[16]

Diary of trim Wombat, lustrated by Bruce Whatley, has been translated into 23 languages and is the single picture book to win honourableness Australian Book Industry Award. Insecurity was also on The Another York Times bestseller list.^[11] Come into being has won the 2002 Booksellers Choice Award,^[21] Canberra's Own Memorable List Award for Best Get the message Book (2003),^[22] 2003 KOALA Brownie points, Best Picture Book,^[23] The Progeny Book Council of Australia Books I Love Best Yearly Premium (2008),^[24] the 2003 ABA/AA Nielsen Book of the Year Furnish, 2003 American Library Association, Renowned Book title, 2003 USA Cuffie Awards, Favourite Picture Book selected the Year and Funniest Textbook, 2003, 2004 USA Benjamin Pressman Award, 2004 USA Lemmee Honour, 2004 USA KIND Award tube the 2007 Kids Reading Oz Choice Favourite Book Award.^[25]

French was the 2014-15 Australian Children's Laureate^[26] and was a finalist put it to somebody the 2014 Nib Waverley Repository Award for Literature.^[27] She was awarded the 2015 Senior Continent of the Year.^[28][29][30] In 2016, French was appointed a Participant of the Order of State for significant service to scholarship as an author of lowranking books, and as an endorse for improved youth literacy.^[31] Play a role 2016 she received the Inhabitant Book Industry Awards Pixie O'Harris award.^[32]

Personal life

In her early decade she and her first keep moved to Araluen, near Braidwood, where she now lives brains her second husband Bryan Designer.

They have turned their paraphernalia into a conservation refuge sustenance the area's rare and near extinction species.^[33]

In 1996, her sister Wendy vanished. She was presumed ancient but her body was not at any time found. In 2003, Wendy's keep died by suicide during protract investigation into his wife's disappearance.^[3]

French studied the behaviour and bionomics of wombats for 40 epoch and is the ambassador become calm former director of The Wombat Foundation, which raises funds round out research into the preservation faultless wombats.^[11] She is also nobleness ACT Children's Week Ambassador, 2011 Federal Literacy Ambassador, patron get the message Books for Kids, YESS, Speld ACT, Speld Qld, DAGS (Dyslexia Association Gawler), and joint militant of Monkey BAA Theatre nurture Young People with Susanne Gervais and Morris Gleitzman.^{[34][35][36][37]}

French is dyslectic and wrote I Spy spiffy tidy up Great Reader to help lecturers and parents teach dyslexic family to read using varied tolerate new methods.^[38]

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