Isobelle Carmody began the first of her highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles while she was still at high school, and worked on the series while completing university. The series, and her many award-winning short stories and books for young people, have established her at the forefront of fantasy writing in Australia.
Obernewtyn was shortlisted for the 1988 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, and its sequel, The Farseekers, was an Honour Book in the 1991 CBCA Awards. The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children’s Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBCA Book of the Year Award. Her novels Greylands and Alyzon Whitestarr were both winners of the Aurealis Award for Speculative Fiction, and the first book in The Legend of Little Fur series, Little Fur, won the 2006 ABPA Design Awards. The Kingdom of the Lost is Isobelle’s second series for younger readers.
Isobelle divides her time between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and her travels abroad.