Elizabeth Honey

Elizabeth Honey
Born (1947-02-07) 7 February 1947
Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia
Occupation Writer, Illustrator, Poet
Nationality Australian
Genre Children's literature, Children's poetry, Children's theatre
Website
http://www.elizabethhoney.com

Elizabeth Honey[N 1] is an Australian author, illustrator and poet, known predominantly for her work in picture books and middle-grade novels. Her work has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Catalan, Hungarian and Spanish, and has also been published in the United States and Britain.[1]

She won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book for Not a Nibble. She also received the Prize Cento and the Young Australians Best Book Award (YABBA) for 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that Happened. In 2001 she was the recipient of the Australian Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature.[2]

Life and career

Honey was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria in 1947.[1] The third of four children, she grew up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. An avid reader as a child,[2] after high school she went on to study at the Swinburne School of Film and Television in Melbourne (later to become the Victorian College of Arts). After several years working in film production and advertising, as well as extensive travel, she began to work as a freelance illustrator.[2] Illustrating for newspapers like The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as providing stamp illustrations for Australia Post, she discovered she enjoyed illustrating children's books the most.[2]

In 1988, Princess Beatrice and the Rotten Robber was published, her first book as both author and illustrator. She has since become an iconic voice in Australian children's literature, going on to author and illustrate a breadth of award winning children's novels, poetry collections, as well as picture books for children of all ages. She is known for writing that is "characteristically humorous and inventive, and features outspoken characters".[3]

Works

Picture books

Poetry

Novels

Stella Street series

Activity books

Works as illustrator

Awards and honours

1994

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2005

2008

2009

2012

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Her first name in German-language publications is usually given as "Elisabeth" (e.g. Amazon)

Sources

  1. 1 2 "A Guide to the Elizabeth Honey Paperes" (PDF). Lu Rees Archives. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "About Elizabeth Honey". Elizabeth Honey official website. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Elizabeth Honey Bio". Austlit website. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
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