Jellicoe Road (2007) Shortlisted – Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Best Young Adult Book for On the Road (2007) Won – Aurealis Award, Young Adult Division, Best Long Fiction for Finnikin of the Rock (2008) Won – Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature for On the Jellicoe Road (2009) Shortlisted – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Young Adult Book Award for The Piper's Son (2010) Shortlisted – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for The Piper's Son (2010) Shortlisted – Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Young Adult Literature, for The Piper's Son (2011) Winner – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Special Award Screenplay Marchetta wrote the screenplay for the film Looking for Alibrandi (1999), a film starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. The film was a box office success, winning five awards including an AFI award and an Independent Film Award for best screenplay, as well as the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award. In 2016, Marchetta announced on her blog she had completed the screenplay for a film adaptation of On the Jellicoe Road. In December 2019 Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises and Wild Sheep Content announced an 8-part TV series. Marchetta will write the pilot with writers Samantha Strauss, Sarah Walker and Angela Betzien also attached. Selected works Looking for Alibrandi (1993), novel Looking for Alibrandi (1999), screenplay On the Jellicoe Road (2006); U.S. title, Jellicoe Road (2008) The Gorgon in the Gully: Pocket Money Puffins (September 2010) Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (2016) When Rosie Met Jim/ Shoeboxes: Volume 22 (2017) with Kathryn Barker Saving Francesca Saving Francesca (2003) The Piper's Son (March 2010) The Place on Dalhousie (2019) The Lumatere Chronicles Finnikin of the Rock (2008) Froi of the Exiles (2011) Quintana of Charyn (2012) What Zola Did What Zola Did on Monday (2020) What Zola Did on Tuesday (2020) What Zola Did on Wednesday (2020) What Zola Did on Thursday (2021) What Zola Did on Friday (2021) What Zola Did on Saturday (2021) What Zola Did on Sunday (2021) See also References External links 1965 births Australian children's writers Australian fantasy writers Australian screenwriters Michael L. Printz Award winners Australian people of Italian descent Writers from Sydney Living people Australian Catholic University alumni Australian women children's writers Women science fiction and fantasy writers Women writers of young adult