Quick Facts
Biography
Vikki Wakefield (born 1970) is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction.
Career
After a career working in banking, journalism and graphic design, Wakefield studied at TAFE and began writing.
Her first book, All I Ever Wanted, was published in 2011 and won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the same year. Two years later her second book, Friday Brown, won the same prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.In 2016 her third book, Inbetween Days, was an honour book in the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.
Wakefield's fourth book, Ballad for a Mad Girl, won the 2018 Davitt Award for best young adult novel and was shortlisted for other awards. This is How We Change the Ending, her fifth novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults and for the 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.
Wakefield's book, This is How We Change the Ending, was longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.
Works
- All I Ever Wanted, Text Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9781921758300
- Friday Brown, Text Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9781921921469
- Inbetween Days, Text Publishing, 2015, ISBN 9781922182364
- Ballad for a Mad Girl, Text Publishing, 2017, ISBN 9781925355291
- This is How We Change the Ending, Text Publishing, 2019, ISBN 9781922268136