Sally Nicholls is a British author of children’s books. She is best known for her debut novel Ways to Live Forever (2008), which won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, and for her historical novel Things a Bright Girl Can Do (2017). In 2008, she was also named Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year.
Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Her father died when she was two, and she was raised with her brother Ian by their mother. She described her childhood as filled with stories, saying, “When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say ‘I’m going to be a writer’ — very definite.”
Sally attended Great Ayton Friends’ School until its closure and then studied at Egglescliffe School until 2001.
After school, she travelled abroad. She worked in a Red Cross hospital in Japan, then journeyed through Australia and New Zealand. She later recalled climbing Mount Doom, wearing a kimono, and visiting the Sydney Opera House.
Returning to the United Kingdom, she studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. She then completed a master’s degree in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, where she wrote her first novel.
Ways to Live Forever (2008) follows 11-year-old Sam, a boy with leukaemia who tells his story through a scrapbook. The book was adapted into a film in 2010. Season of Secrets (2009) drew on the folklore of the Green Man, while All Fall Down (2012) depicted life during the Black Death. Her later works include Close Your Pretty Eyes (2013), An Island of Our Own (2015), and Things a Bright Girl Can Do (2017), which tells the story of young suffragettes during the First World War. She also contributed to the 2016 anthology Mystery & Mayhem.
Sally Nicholls has received several awards. She won the Orange New Voices prize in 2006 for her short story All About Ella. Ways to Live Forever brought her the 2008 Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, the 2008 Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year award, and the 2009 Bolton Book Award. The German edition of the book won the 2008 Die Zeit Luchs des Jahres prize.
Sally Nicholls lives in Oxford with her family. She is a regular attender at Quaker meetings.
Photo credits: sallynicholls.com
Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Her father died when she was two, and she was raised with her brother Ian by their mother. She described her childhood as filled with stories, saying, “When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say ‘I’m going to be a writer’ — very definite.”
Sally attended Great Ayton Friends’ School until its closure and then studied at Egglescliffe School until 2001.
After school, she travelled abroad. She worked in a Red Cross hospital in Japan, then journeyed through Australia and New Zealand. She later recalled climbing Mount Doom, wearing a kimono, and visiting the Sydney Opera House.
Returning to the United Kingdom, she studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. She then completed a master’s degree in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, where she wrote her first novel.
Ways to Live Forever (2008) follows 11-year-old Sam, a boy with leukaemia who tells his story through a scrapbook. The book was adapted into a film in 2010. Season of Secrets (2009) drew on the folklore of the Green Man, while All Fall Down (2012) depicted life during the Black Death. Her later works include Close Your Pretty Eyes (2013), An Island of Our Own (2015), and Things a Bright Girl Can Do (2017), which tells the story of young suffragettes during the First World War. She also contributed to the 2016 anthology Mystery & Mayhem.
Sally Nicholls has received several awards. She won the Orange New Voices prize in 2006 for her short story All About Ella. Ways to Live Forever brought her the 2008 Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, the 2008 Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year award, and the 2009 Bolton Book Award. The German edition of the book won the 2008 Die Zeit Luchs des Jahres prize.
Sally Nicholls lives in Oxford with her family. She is a regular attender at Quaker meetings.
Photo credits: sallynicholls.com
years of life: 22 June 1983 – present
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