Awards & Winners

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Date of Birth 22-May-1978
Place of Birth Hobart
(Tasmania, Australia)
Nationality Australia
Profession Writer
Tansy Rayner Roberts is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis. In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for Splashdance Silver, awarded to an unpublished Australian science fiction/fantasy novel each year. Set in the comic fantasy world of 'Mocklore', Splashdance Silver was published by Bantam in 1998. A sequel, Liquid Gold, and the chapbook novelette Hobgoblin Boots are also both set in 'Mocklore'. In 2007 her children's novel Seacastle was published by ABC Books. Seacastle is the first book in the seven-part children's book series The Lost Shimmaron, sold to ABC Books by Australian writers group wRiters On the Rise. In May 2010 Power and Majesty, Book One of the Creature Court trilogy, was published by HarperCollins Voyager. Roberts has described the Creature Court trilogy as a combination of two fantasy sub-genres: court fantasy and urban fantasy. Roberts was one of the founding members of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and edited issues 9 in 2003 and issue 23 in 2006. She also co-edited AustrAlien Absurdities with Chuck McKenzie, an anthology of humorous Australian speculative fiction in 2002.

Awards by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tansy Rayner Roberts.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Fancast Galactic Suburbia Podcast
Hugo Award for Best Fancast Verity!

2013


Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
Hugo Award for Best Fancast Galactic Suburbia Podcast

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Fancast Galactic Suburbia Podcast