KV Johansen biography

K.V. Johansen's has M.A. degrees in Medieval Studies and in English Literature. She was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Her YA novel Nightwalker was a VOYA "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror" selection (April 2007) and won the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award. Torrie and the Pirate-Queen won the 2006 Lilla Sterling Award from the Canadian Author's Association. Torrie and the Firebird was one of the Ontario Library Association's Top Ten Children's Books of 2006, while The Cassandra Virus was shortlisted for the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians 2007 Book of the Year for Children Award. She held the 2001 Eileen Wallace Research fellowship in Children's Literature from the Wallace Collection at UNB and received the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award from IBBY Canada for research into children's literature. Her research has been published in book form as Beyond Window Dressing: Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium. In 2000 she received a Lieutenant-Governor's Early Childhood Literacy Award. Johansen's website: www.pippin.ca

KV Johansen books

Warlocks of Talverdin (novels, fantasy, young adult)

• Nightwalker (2007)
• Treason in Eswy (2008)
• Warden of Greyrock (2009)

Torrie Quests (novels, fantasy, children's)

• Torrie and the Dragon (1997)
• Torrie and the Pirate-Queen (2005) (in Danish as Sørøverdronningen, 2005)
• Torrie and the Firebird (2006)
• Torrie and the Snake-Prince (2007) (in Macedonian translation 2008)

Cassandra Virus (novels, science fiction, children's)

• The Cassandra Virus (2006)
• The Drone War (2007)
• The Black Box (2009)

Pippin (picture books)

• Pippin Takes a Bath (1999) (in French as Au bain, coquine!, 1999)
• Pippin and the Bones (2000) (in French as Coquine et son trésor, 2000)
• Pippin and Pudding (2001) (in French as Coquine et Pouding, 2001)

Collections (short stories, fantasy, adult)

• The Serpent Bride and Other Stories from Medieval Danish Ballads (1998)
• The Storyteller and other Tales (2008)

Non-fiction

• Quests and Kingdoms: A Grown-Up's Guide to Children's Fantasy Literature (2005)
• Beyond Window Dressing? Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium (2007)

Latest news: KV Johansen

KV Johansen’s Torrie and the Snake Prince receives international recognition
Negotiated by her publisher, translated by an academic in Eastern Europe, the Macedonian edition of her children's fantasy novel Torrie and the Snake Prince seemed a rather distant affair to author KV Johansen until she actually held it in her hands. "It really brought home that it was transla [...]

KV Johansen wins Anna Frank Award
Feniks publishing house and the Makedonija Prezent Foundation of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, will be presenting the International Anna Frank Award to Canadian writer KV Johansen at the 22nd International Book Fair in Skopje, which will be held from 13 to 18 April 2010. The award jury - Hristo Pe [...]

Warden of Greyrock by KV Johansen
An invasion, a hostage-taking, an age-old secret… In this third book of the Warlocks of Talverdin series, Maurey, the half human, half Nightwalker Warden of Greyrock, and Annot, the dauntless Baroness of Oakhold, have settled down in Greyrock Castle, but those who still hate and fear the Nightwalk [...]

KV Johansen to attend The Oshawa Public Libraries Festival
The Oshawa Public Libraries Festival is running during the month of November. In this this time four branches if the library will host visits by Canadian children's authors as students celebrate the written word. To celebrate the launch, comedian and children's author Sean Cullen addressed the adult [...]

Latest book review: The Storyteller and other tales by KV Johansen
The Storyteller and other tales by KV Johansen is a collection for adults and older teens that will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times. Demon bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess. The stor [...]

KV Johansen to tour Quebec in November
KV Johansen will be part of TD Canadian Children's Book Week 2008 that will be touring Quebec  from November the 15th until the 22nd. A national not-for-profit organization and registered charity, the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) was founded in 1976 to promote, support and encourage t [...]