Margo Lanagan
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born
June 05, 1960
gender
female
place of birth
Waratah, New South Wales, Australia
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Short Stories, Young Adult
about this author
Margo Lanagan, born in Waratah, New South Wales, is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction.
Many of her books, including YA fiction, were only published in Australia. Recently, several of her books have attracted worldwide attention. Her short story collection Black Juice won two World Fantasy Awards. It was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin and the United Kingdom by Gollancz in 2004, and in North America by HarperCollins in 2005. It includes the much-anthologized short story "Singing My Sister Down".
Her short story collection White Time, originally published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2000, was published in North America by HarperCollins in August 2006, after the success o...more
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Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan avg rating 3.52 — 627 ratings — published 2008 12 editions |
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Black Juice by Margo Lanagan avg rating 3.59 — 177 ratings — published 2004 10 editions |
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Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan avg rating 3.43 — 113 ratings — published 2006 5 editions |
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White Time by Margo Lanagan avg rating 3.73 — 45 ratings — published 2000 3 editions |
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Touching Earth Lightly by Margo Lanagan avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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The Best Thing by Margo Lanagan avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Treasure Hunters of Quentaris by Margo Lanagan avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004 |
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Wildgame (A Little Ark Book) by Margo Lanagan avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1993 2 editions |
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The Singing Stones (The Lost Shimmaron, #2) by Margo Lanagan avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Walking Through Albert by Margo Lanagan avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1998 |
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"You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart. However sweet that other place was, it was not real. It was an artifact of your mam's imagination; it was a dream of hers and a desire; you could not have stayed there forever and called yourself alive. Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to. (357)"
— Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels)
— Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels)
"What about the world do you most love?
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine"
— Margo Lanagan
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine"
— Margo Lanagan
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