Juliet Marillier (born 7 August 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of

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, focusing predominantly on

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Biography

Juliet Marillier was educated at the

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, where she graduated with a BA in languages and a

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(honours). Marillier taught music at the high school and university levels and has been a choral conductor and opera singer. Marillier lives in the

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(2014). She belongs to the

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. Marillier is on the Literary Advisory Committee for the

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Writers' Centre and is a contributor to the fiction writing blog, Writer Unboxed.

Awards

Bibliography

The Sevenwaters Series

# '' Daughter of the Forest'' (1999) # '' Son of the Shadows'' (2000) # ''

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'' (2001) # '' Heir to Sevenwaters'' (2008) # ''Seer of Sevenwaters'' (2010) # ''Flame of Sevenwaters'' (2012)

Saga of the Light Isles

# '' Wolfskin'' (2002) # '' Foxmask'' (2003)

The Bridei Chronicles

# '' The Dark Mirror'' (2004) # '' Blade of Fortriu'' (2005) # '' The Well of Shades'' (2006)

The Whistling Tor series

# ''Heart's Blood'' (2009)

Novels for young adults

# '' Wildwood Dancing'' (2006) # '' Cybele's Secret'' (2007)

The Shadowfell series

# ''Shadowfell'' (2012) # ''Raven Flight'' (2013) # ''The Caller'' (2014)

Blackthorn and Grim

# ''Dreamer's Pool'' (2014) # ''Tower of Thorns'' (2015) # ''Den of Wolves'' (October, 2016)

Warrior Bards

# ''The Harp of Kings'' (September, 2019) # ''A Dance with Fate'' (September, 2020) # ''A Song of Flight'' (September, 2021)

Short story collections

* ''Prickle Moon'' (2013), 16 stories. *''Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness'' (2021), 4 stories.

Short stories

Short stories in ''Prickle Moon''. * "Prickle Moon" * "Otherling" * "Let down your hair" * "Poppy seeds" * "In Coed Celyddon" * "Juggling silver" * "'Twixt Firelight and Water (A Tale of Sevenwaters)" * "Gift of hope" * "Letters from Robert" * "Jack's day" * "Far horizons" * "Tough Love 3001" * "Wraith, level one" * "Back and beyond" * "The angel of death" * "By bone-light" * "Beautiful" Dates shown are for first Australian publication.

Audiobooks

*'' Daughter of the Forest'' *'' Son of the Shadows'' *''

'' *'' Heir to Sevenwaters'' *''Seer of Sevenwaters'' *''Flame of Sevenwaters'' *'' Wolfskin'' *'' Foxmask'' *'' The Dark Mirror'' *'' Blade of Fortriu'' *'' The Well of Shades'' *'' Heart's Blood'' *'' Wildwood Dancing'' *'' Cybele's Secret'' *''Dreamer's Pool'' *''Tower of Thorns'' *''Den of Wolves'' *''The Harp of Kings'' *''A Dance with Fate'' *''A Song of Flight'' *''Beautiful'' (novel) *''Die Tochter der Wälder'' (German) *''Sohn der Schatten'' (German) *''Das Kind der Stürme'' (German) *''Die Erben von Sevenwaters'' (German)

References

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