Awards & Winners

Nancy Farmer

Date of Birth 07-July-1941
Place of Birth Phoenix
(Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Nancy Forsythe Farmer
Profession Author, Novelist, Writer
Nancy Farmer is an American author of children's and young-adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and she won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002. Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. She enlisted in the Peace Corps, and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia, where she studied biological methods of controlling the tsetse fly between 1975–1978. She met her future husband, Harold Farmer, at the University of Rhodesia. After a week-long courtship, the two were married. Farmer currently lives in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona with her husband; they have one son, Daniel.

Awards by Nancy Farmer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nancy Farmer.

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature The Land of the Silver Apples

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature The Sea of Trolls
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book The Sea of Trolls

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The House of the Scorpion
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2003


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The House of the Scorpion

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Michael L. Printz Award The House of the Scorpion
Honor Book
John Newbery Medal The House of the Scorpion
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature The House of the Scorpion
Locus Award for Best Young-Adult Book The House of the Scorpion

2002


National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Honored for : The House of the Scorpion

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Carnegie Medal in Literature The House of the Scorpion
National Book Award for Young People's Literature The House of the Scorpion

1997


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : A Girl Named Disaster

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal A Girl Named Disaster

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Girl Named Disaster

1995


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm