Biografia
Anna Fienberg is an Australian writer of young adult fiction and children's literature. == Biography == Fienberg was born in 1956 in England before moving to Australia at the age of three. She has worked as an editor for School Magazine. In 1988 her first work was published, entitled Billy Bear and the Wild Winter. In 1989 Fienberg released her first novel, The Nine Lives of Balthazar. She has won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers in 1992 for The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels and has been a short-list nominee on four other occasions. Fienberg has also won the Alan Marshall Award for Children's Literature in 1993 for Ariel, Zed & the Secret of Life and the 2003 Aurealis Award for best children's short fiction for Tashi and the Haunted House. She has also been an Aurealis Award finalist on four other occasions. Fienberg was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to literature as an author". == Bibliography == === Novels === The Nine Lives of Balthazar (1989, with Donna Gynell) Ariel, Zed and the Secret of Life (1992, Kim Gamble) Power to Burn (1995) Borrowed Light (1999) The Witch in the Lake (2001) Horrendo's Curse (2002) Number 8 (2007) === Chapter books === Tashi (with Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble) Tashi (1995) Tashi and the Giants (1995) Tashi and the Ghosts (1996) Tashi and the Genie (1997) Tashi and the Baba Yaga (1998) Tashi and the Demons (1999) Tashi and the Big Stinker (2001) Tashi and the Dancing Shoes (2002) Tashi and the Haunted House (2002) Tashi and the Royal Tomb (2003) There Once Was a Boy Called Tashi (2003) Tashi Lost in the City (2004) Tashi and the Forbidden Room (2005) Tashi and the Stolen Bus (2006) Tashi and the Mixed-up Monster (2007) Tashi and the Phoenix (2008) Tashi and the Golem (2009) Other books Billy Bear and the Wild Winter (1988) Wiggy and Boa (1988, with Ann James) Dead Sailors Don't Bite (1996, with Ann James) Pirate Trouble for Wiggy and Boa (1996, with Ann James) === Collections === X-Change: Stories for a New Century (2000) The Big, Big, Big Book of Tashi (2001, with Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble). Includes Tashi (1995), Tashi and the Giants (1995), Tashi and the Ghosts (1996), Tashi and the Genie (1997), Tashi and the Baba Yaga (1998), Tashi and the Demons (1999), Tashi and the Big Stinker (2001). Tashi: 2 Books in One (2003, with Barbara Fienberg) The Second Big Big Book of Tashi (2006, with Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble). Includes Tashi and the Dancing Shoes (2002), Tashi and the Haunted House (2002), Tashi and the Royal Tomb (2003), Tashi Lost in the City (2004), and Tashi and the Forbidden Room (2005). The Great Big Enormous Book of Tashi (Tashi #1–16) Minton Goes!: Underwater & Home at Last (2008, with Kim Gamble) Minton Goes!: Driving and Trucking (2008, with Kim Gamble) Minton Goes!: Sailing and Flying (2008, with Kim Gamble) === Picture books === Minton (with Kim Gamble) Minton Go
