Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, born in Surrey in 1990, is a British author and poet. She studied at Oxford and Cambridge and began writing poetry in her first year at university. Her first children’s book was published in 2016; she has since written books for children and young adults, novels, three poetry collections and a play. Her work has received several awards, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year. *Vardø. Nach dem Sturm* was her first novel for adults.