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The Nargun and the Stars

by Patricia Wrightson

Hans Christian · 1986 · Winner
Children'sISBN 9780689304323

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Hans Christian Andersen Award1986Winner

About the Author

Patricia Wrightson (1921–2010) was an Australian author renowned for her children's books that incorporated Australian Aboriginal mythology in a magic realism style. Kids. She won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986 and multiple Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards for works including The Nargun and the Stars (1974), The Ice Is Coming (1978), and A Little Fear (1984). Read more →

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