Sophie Anderson grew up on the Welsh coast and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards’ Children’s Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie’s books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.
Sophie is represented by Gemma Cooper Literary.
“Heart-stirring storytelling.” The Sunday Times
“Utterly magical and highly original.” The Bookseller
“Marvelously charmed and charming.” Kirkus Reviews
“One of my all-time favourite storytellers.” Kiran Millwood Hargrave
“Sophie Anderson is the real thing – a writer with true talent, courage and her own distinctive vision.” David Almond
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