Erin Entrada Kelly
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Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer. She received the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children for her third novel Hello, Universe. She won the award a second time in 2025 for her novel The First State of Being.
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Miep DiekmannAlso won Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
Eleanor EstesAlso won Newbery MedalMonique TruongAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Rebecca SteadAlso won Newbery Medal
Cynthia KadohataAlso won Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
Øyvind TorseterAlso won Deutscher JugendliteraturpreisAbout this person
Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer. She received the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children for her third novel Hello, Universe. She won the award a second time in 2025 for her novel The First State of Being. She also received a 2021 Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, the Award for Children's Literature from the Asian Pacific Librarians Association for her second novel The Land of Forgotten Girls, and a Sibert Honor for At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom, her first work of nonfiction. She is one of only five authors who have won two Newbery Medals and a Newbery Honor. Kelly also received the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliter Preis for Vier Wünsche ans Universum, the German edition of Hello, Universe.
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