Shelley Tanaka

Shelley Tanaka
Occupation Editor, writer, translator, writing teacher
Period 1980s–present
Genre Children's literature, non-fiction

Shelley Tanaka is a Canadian editor of numerous young adult novels, an award-winning author of non-fiction for children, a translator, and a writing teacher.

Biography

Shelley Tanaka was born in Toronto, Canada. She received an Honours Bachelor's degree in English and German from Queen's University, and a Master's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto.[1][2] She lives in Ontario, Canada.[3]

Tanaka began her editing career at Clarke Irwin.[4] She has been the fiction editor at Groundwood Books, a Canadian children's book publisher, since 1983 and has edited books by many Canadian writers, including Tim Wynne-Jones, Deborah Ellis, Martha Brooks, Sarah Ellis and Alan Cumyn. She is the editor of thirteen Governor General's Award winning books.[1][5][6]

Shelley Tanaka writes nonfiction for children, including books in the I Was There series and A Day That Changed America series. She has won numerous awards for her writing, among them the Orbis Pictus Award in 2009.[7] Her books have been translated into several languages: German, Danish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Thai.[8] Additionally, she has translated many children's picture books and novels from German and French into English.[2][8]

Tanaka teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.[3]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Historical events

Biographies

Arts

Environment

Archaeology

Fiction

Earlier works

Books translated into English

French
German

References

  1. 1 2 "Member Profile | The Writers' Union of Canada". Writersunion.ca. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Translators: Shelley Tanaka". Cultures in Translation. Goethe-Institut (goethe.de). Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Shelley Tanaka | Vermont College of Fine Arts". Vcfa.edu. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Shelley Tanaka". Lookingglassreview.com. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  5. "Shelley Tanaka | Canadian Children's Book Centre". Bookcentre.ca. 13 June 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  6. http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_home.cfm
  7. "NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children". Ncte.org. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 "On board the Titanic : what it was like when the great liner sank". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  9. http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu/awards09.html
  10. "IBBY Honour List | Canadian Children's Book Centre". Bookcentre.ca. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  11. "Mr. Christie's Book Awards". Ucalgary.ca. 11 June 1998. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  12. "Silver Birch Award | Canadian Children's Book Centre". Bookcentre.ca. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  13. "Information Book Award | Canadian Children's Book Centre". Bookcentre.ca. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  14. Shelley Tanaka. "Nobody Knows". House of Anansi. Retrieved 8 October 2012.

Interviews

Additional resources

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