Janni Howker

Janni Howker is an award-winning author. She was born in Cyprus, where her father was stationed with the RAF. Her work includes “The Nature of the Beast”, winner of the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award, winner of the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal; “Isaac Campion”, short listed for the Carnegie Medal; and “Martin Farrell”. Her non-fiction picture book “Walk with a Wolf” was short listed for the Kurt Maschler Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award. Of her work, Janni says, “I am a slow writer. I often work very late at night when the cottage is silent. Sometimes I feel that I am not making up the story I am working on but listening, quietly; listening for it to be told to me”. She lives in Cumbria with her son and a variety of animals.