the Girl; sequel to Fighting Ruben Wolfe The Messenger (2002); US title: I Am the Messenger The Book Thief (2005) Bridge of Clay (2018), Pan Macmillan Australia Awards In 2014, Zusak won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association (ALA), which annually recognises an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". In 2006, Zusak was also the recipient of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Australian Novelist of the Year Award. The Book Thief 2006: Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 (literature) 2006: National Jewish Book Award (Children's and Young Adult Literature) 2007: Michael L. Printz Award runner-up (Honor Book) from the US Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) 2008: Ena Noel Award – the IBBY Australia Ena Noël Encouragement Award for Children's Literature 2009: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The Messenger (US title: I Am The Messenger) 2003: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature 2003: Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award 2005: Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year-Children 2006: Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book 2006: Printz Award Honor Book 2007: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis When Dogs Cry / Getting the Girl 2002: Honour Book, CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers Fighting Ruben Wolfe 2001: Honour Book, CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature References 1975 births 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian male novelists Margaret A. Edwards Award winners Writers from Sydney Australian people of Austrian descent Australian people of German descent Living people 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers University of New South Wales alumni