The country of Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom are separated by The Wall. The first book in the Old Kingdom series. He and his wife, Anna, live on the beach in Sydney, where Nix has settled into his career as a full-time writer.īiography from Sabriel by Garth Nix. He is working on a screenplay of Sabriel as well as a fourth novel in the Old Kingdom series. Nix's books have been published across the world in more than thirty languages. In 2001, Nix also returned to the Old Kingdom of Sabriel with Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr, followed by 2003's Abhorsen. The series ended in 2001 with Into Battle and The Violet Keystone. Nix started the Seventh Tower Series in 2000 with The Fall, Castle, Aenir, and Above the Veil. Nix's success continued with 1997's Shade's Children, which was chosen as an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and was shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards and the Heartland Prize. Five years later, Nix published Sabriel which won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and Best Young Adult Novel. In 1990, while working for HarperCollins, Nix published his first book, The Ragwitch. Afterward, he worked at a bookshop before becoming a sales rep and publicist at HarperCollins, where he was named senior editor in 1991. Garth Nix has been involved in writing for decades after graduating from the University of Canberra with a Bachelor's degree in Professional Writing in 1986.
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