Awards & Winners

Kenneth Oppel

Date of Birth 31-August-1967
Place of Birth Port Alberni
(Canada, British Columbia, Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District)
Nationality Canada
Profession Novelist, Writer, Author
Kenneth Oppel is a Canadian writer. Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, he spent his childhood in Victoria, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has also lived in Newfoundland and Labrador, England and Ireland. Oppel's first book, Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure, published by E.P. Dutton in 1985, was written while he was a high school student at St. Michaels University School in Victoria. Oppel forwarded the newly completed manuscript to a family friend, that knew Roald Dahl, who in turn recommended it to his agent. Oppel went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema studies and English at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, writing The Live-Forever Machine during his final year. Oppel moved to England and wrote a number of books during that period, gleaning several ideas while working at typing students' papers. Oppel worked as an editor at Quill and Quire, the trade magazine of the Canadian publishing industry, from 1995 to 1996.

Awards by Kenneth Oppel

Check all the awards nominated and won by Kenneth Oppel.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book Skybreaker

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Michael L. Printz Award Airborn
Honor Book
Carnegie Medal in Literature Skybreaker
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book Airborn

2004


Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature
Honored for : Airborn

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature Airborn