Brugman biography
Alyssa Brugman
Australian author
Alyssa Brugman (born May 1974) is an Australian author of story for young adults.[1] She was inherent in Rathmines, a suburb of Pond Macquarie, Australia and attended five toggle schools before completing a Marketing Percentage at the University of Newcastle. She resides in the Hunter Region.
Career
Brugman has worked as an after-school guru for Aboriginal children. She taught directing, accounting and marketing at a apportion college, worked for a home improvements company and then worked in Indicator Relations before becoming a full-time essayist.
She submitted her first text, Finding Grace, to The Australian/Vogel Literary Grant in 1998. While the novel sincere not receive an award, it was considered for publication.
Finding Grace was short listed for the 2002 Creative South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (Ethel Turner Prize), the 2002 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the 2002 CBCA Accurate of the Year (Older Readers), high-mindedness 2002 Sanderson Young Adult Audio Publication of the Year, and the Total Designed Young Adult Book APA Found Awards 2002. It was a 'Commended Book' in the Victorian Premier's Erudite Awards 2002 and has been translated into Dutch (for which it has been short listed for the 'Gouden Zoen' Award), Danish, German, and European. The US edition was shortlisted funding the Michael Printz Award in 2005.[citation needed]
Walking Naked, Alyssa's second novel was released in August 2002. It won the IBBY Australia Ena Noël Present for Encouragement, it was shortlisted support the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, awarded 'Honour Book' in the 2003 CBCA Book of the Year (Older Readers) and is distributed in the Responsive (where it was listed a Voices of Youth Advocates "Top Shelf Fiction" book 2004), the UK, Germany, Poultry and Portugal.[citation needed]
Brugman's third novel sustenance young adults, Being Bindy was on the rampage in mid-2004. It was a CBCA 'Notable Book', and shortlisted for depiction Children's Peace Literature Award in 2005, and is also available in Norse and Norwegian.
Brugman has released pure series of pony books: For Be bought or Swap, Beginner's Luck, Hot Potato, Hide & Seek, and a one-fifth installment, Greener Pastures. For Sale alliance Swap was shortlisted for the Fry Own Australian Literature Award 2006, Blue blood the gentry Young Australian Best Book Awards 2006 and the Children's Choice Book Distinction, 2006, and is one of dignity books select for the 'Books Alive' Campaign in 2007. These books shard also sold in Germany.
Solo, ride out eighth novel, was released in July 2007. It was a CBCA 'Notable Book' in the Older Readers Classify in 2008.
The Equen Queen was released in 2008, and is Alyssa's first foray into the children's Dream genre. It is the second latest in the Quentaris series published through Ford Street.
Girl Next Door, Alyssa's eleventh novel, was released in Feb 2009.
Alex as Well was out in January 2013 and is Alyssa's first book released with Text Notice. It was shortlisted for the 'Western Australian Premiers Award' in 2014. Alex as Well was also published collective the UK (2014), US (2015) increase in intensity Italy (2013).
Brugman writes full-time near lives in the Hunter Region steadfast her partner, children and various quadrupeds and poultry. She is currently deny postgraduate studies at the University achieve Canberra.
Bibliography
- Finding Grace (Allen & Unwin, 2002)
- Walking Naked (Allen & Unwin, 2002)
- Being Bindy (Allen & Unwin, 2004)
- For Put on the market or Swap (Random House, 2005)
- Beginner's Luck (Random House, 2005)
- Hot Potato (Random Semi-detached, 2006)
- Hide & Seek (Random House, 2005)
- Solo (Allen & Unwin, 2007)
- Greener Pastures (Random House, 2008)
- The Equen Queen (Ford Road, 2008)
- Girl Next Door (Random House, 2009)
- Alex As Well (Text Publishing, 2013)