Fleur Beale is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults — she has now had more than 50 books published in New Zealand, as well as being published in the United States, the UK and Germany.
In 2012, she won the Margaret Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to children’s writing. In the 2009 LIANZA Children’s Book Awards, she won the Esther Glen Award for distinguished contribution to children’s literature for Juno of Taris, and Fierce September won the young adult category in the 2011 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards as well as the LIANZA Young Adult Award in 2011.
Fleur is the only writer to have twice won the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book, with Slide the Corner in 2007, and I Am Not Esther in 2009.
A former high-school teacher, Fleur now lives in Wellington.