Tanya Landman

Tanya Landman is an English author of children's and young adult books. She is also a performer and scriptwriter for Storybox Theatre, a puppet theatre based in Devon, England. She is the niece of the actor Robert Shaw.
Awards.
Landman won the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal for her novel "Buffalo Soldier". She also won a Western Writers of America 2009 Spur Award for her novel "I Am Apache".
Her work has also been shortlisted for numerous other awards: the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize for "Apache"; the 2010 Bolton Children's Book Award and 2010 Red House Children's Book Award for "Mondays are Murder"; and the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for "The Goldsmith's Daughter."