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Gabrielle Williams Gabrielle Williams i(A59655 works by)
Born: Established: 20 Aug 1963 ; Died: Ceased: 21 Jan 2023 Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Gabrielle Williams was a Melbourne-based author. She has worked in recording studios, advertising, and television, as well as working as a bookseller with Readings, where she was also the mamager of the Readings Prize and grants officer for the Readings Foundation.

Her first novel, for adults, was published in 2001. From 2009, she published numerous novels for young adults, which were regularly shortlisted for awards, including the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Gabrielle Williams died in January 2023, after suffering a stroke.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon It's Not You, It's Me Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 22115542 2021 single work novel young adult fantasy

'A literally life-changing novel about time travel, soulmates and serial killers that asks a very big question: Can you ever change your fate? This is award-winning YA author Gabrielle Williams' most surprising, ambitious and dexterous book yet.

'Holly Fitzgerald has inexplicably woken up inside the body of an LA teenager called Trinity Byrne in 1980 - trapping Trinity in Holly's forty-year-old body back in Melbourne, 2020.

'Mind. Officially. Blown.

'Holly finds herself navigating a brand-new body, family and cute boy next door - not to mention rock band that might just make it, and potential kidnapper. Meanwhile, lies intersect with truth, hurtling both Holly and Trinity towards a dangerous fate as the connections between them grow deeper and stranger than either could have ever imagined.

'Freaky Friday meets Pretty Little Liars - if the Liars were an all-girl punk band from the 1980s - in this highly original soul-swap story from the critically acclaimed author of My Life as a Hashtag.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2021 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Young Adult Division Novel
y separately published work icon My Life as a Hashtag Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 10953699 2017 single work novel young adult

'I'd been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn't be happy if I stayed out here by the pool, with Jed's nail tracing the length of my neck.

'But I didn't want to go inside. I didn't want another drink. I wanted to stay out here and see what would happen.

'What’s a girl to do when her parents have split up; her mum’s trawling Tinder; and one of her best friends has decided not to invite her to the biggest party of the year, which she then has to watch unfold on everyone else’s social media?'

If you’re a girl called MC, you get mad as hell, that’s what you do.

'But what begins as one girl’s private, no-holds-barred rant soon snowballs in the most public way possible.

'A funny, heartfelt novel for anyone who's ever wished they hadn't pressed send.' (Publication summary)

2018 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Young Adult Book
2018 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2018 longlisted Indie Awards Young Adult
y separately published work icon The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8361661 2015 single work novel young adult

'A rock chick.

'An artist with attitude.

'A girl with a past.

'A party animal.

'Four lives collide when one of the world's most famous paintings is stolen. It's a mystery that has the nation talking, but while Picasso's Weeping Woman might be absent from the walls of the National Gallery, in other parts of Melbourne the controversial painting's presence is being felt by Guy, Rafi, Luke and Penny for four very different reasons.

'Life, love, art and one giant party intersect in this offbeat comedy about good intentions, unexpected consequences and the irresistible force of true love.' (Publication summary)

2016 longlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2016 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2016 longlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
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