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Clare Atkins

Clare Atkins

Biography

Clare Atkins is an author, scriptwriter, script editor and story developer. She wrote her first novel, Nona & Me, while living in the remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. It went on to win the 2016 Book of the Year in the NT Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Her second novel, Between Us, won the 2019 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers and was shortlisted for many other awards, including the Prime Minister's Literary Award and NSW Premier's Literary Award. Egg is Clare’s first picture book.