Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young AdultĬhildren's Book Council of Australia: Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young AdultsĪustralian Book Industry Award: Book of the Year for Older Children NSW Premier's Literary Award: Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature Young Australians Best Book Awards: Fiction for Older ReadersĪdelaide Festival Award for Literature: Young Adult Fiction Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature INDIES Award for Juvenile Fiction (Children's)Īustralian Book Design Awards for Children's Fiction

Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Young Adult Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named The Gaps one of the best young adult novels of the year. Iris and the Tiger was selected for The White Ravens Catalogue (2017). In 2014, she participated in Australian Writers Week in China. In 2013, Hall was an Asialink Artist in Residence at Peking University. Her most recent novel, The Gaps, won the Davitt Award for Best Young Adult Novel, Adelaide Festival Award for Literature: Young Adult Fiction, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, and Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult.

Her novel Iris and the Tiger won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature (2017). Hall's debut novel This is Shyness won the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing (2009). Leanne Hall is an Australian author of young adult and children's fiction.

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