Tanya Landman is an English author of over forty children's and young adult books. She won the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal for her novel Buffalo Soldier and a Western Writers of America 2009 Spur Award for her novel I Am Apache. Landman also writes historical fiction.
Tanya Landman was born and brought up in Kent. She is the niece of the actor Robert Shaw.
Tanya’s first books were “adventure stories with a sprinkling of magic and spoonful of humor.” In 2009, Landman turned to crime, writing Mondays are Murder (winner of a Red House Book Award), the first in a series of ten Agatha-Christies-for-kids.
Tanya is probably best known for her historical thrillers for young adults. Apache was shortlisted for several UK awards. Buffalo Soldier won the 2015 Carnegie Medal. Hell and High Water was shortlisted for the 2016 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
In 2019, Tanya Landman won the Scottish Teenage Book Prize for her critically acclaimed novella One Shot, inspired by the early life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
Tanya now lives and works in North Devon, where she writes her Flotsam & Jetsam series and the historical thriller Hell and High Water.
Landman is also a performer and scriptwriter for Storybox Theatre.
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