Candy Gourlay
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| Born | Maria Cristina Lopez Quimpo[1] Davao City, Philippines |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | British, Filipino |
| Alma mater | Ateneo de Manila University, 1984 Saint Theresa's College of Quezon City, 1980 |
| Period | 2010–present (fiction) |
| Genre | Children's Books, Fiction, Middle Grade, Teen Novels, Young Adult |
| Notable works | Tall Story (2010), Shine (2013) |
| Notable awards | Crystal Kite Prize for Europe 2014 National Children's Book Award of the Philippines 2012 Crystal Kite Prize for Europe 2011 |
| Spouse | Richard Gourlay[1] |
| Children | 3[1] |
| Website | |
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Candy Gourlay (née Quimpo) is a Filipino journalist and author based in the United Kingdom whose debut novel Tall Story (2010) was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.[2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Gourlay was born and raised in the Philippines.
Career
[edit | edit source]Journalist
[edit | edit source]From 1984 to 1989, she worked as a journalist in the Philippines, notably as a staffwriter and later associate editor of the weekly opposition tabloid Mr & Ms Special Edition, which played a significant role in the overthrow of the 21 year regime of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos.[4][5][6]
Her other positions include:
- 1984, staff writer, Mr & Ms Special Edition (Manila)
- 1985, associate editor, Mr & Ms Special Edition (Manila)
- 1986, desk editor, Philippine Daily Inquirer (Manila)
- 1987, correspondent, Asia Magazine (Manila)
- 1989, staff writer, Marketing Magazine (London)
- 1990, London correspondent, Inter Press Service (London)[7]
- 2005, presenter and writer, Motherless Nation, BBC Radio 4 documentary on the social impact of Philippine migration
Author
[edit | edit source]Her debut novel Tall Story (2010) won the National Children's Book Award of the Philippines in 2012 and the Crystal Kite Award for the British Isles in 2011. Tall Story was shortlisted for 13 prizes, notably: the Waterstones Children's Book Prize,[8][9] the Branford Boase Award, the Blue Peter Book Award[10] and the UKLA Children's Book Prize.[11] It was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.[12]
Her second novel Shine (2013) was longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize[13] and won the Crystal Kite Award for the British Isles in 2014.
Bone Talk (2018) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the CILIP Carnegie Medal.[14]
Published books
[edit | edit source]- Hinabing Gunita (Woven Memories): Filipinos in the United Kingdom (London: Centre for Filipinos, 2004)[15]
- Animal Tricksters (Oxford University Press, 2010) – OCLC 495598126.
- Tall Story (Oxford: David Fickling Books, 2010)
- Shine (David Fickling, 2013)
- Bone Talk (David Fickling, 2018)
- Wild Song (David Fickling, 2023)
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Interview with Mirrors Windows Doors, August 2014
- Review of Shine by Philip Ardagh, January 2014
- Candy Gourlay at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalogue record
- Candy Gourlay's website March 2022
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- Visayan people
- People from Davao City
- British children's writers
- Filipino children's writers
- Filipino women writers
- Writers from Davao del Sur
- Filipino journalists
- Filipino women journalists
- Filipino bloggers
- Filipino women bloggers
- British women children's writers
- British bloggers
- British women bloggers
- Filipino emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Ateneo de Manila University alumni
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom