{{Short description|Filipino author based in the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer |name = Candy Gourlay |image = Candy Gourlay.jpg |image_size = 220 | caption = Gourlay in 2013
| birth_name = Maria Cristina Lopez Quimpo<ref name="Candy Gourlay">{{cite news|last1=de Vera|first1=Ruel|title=Identity crisis spawns 2 books by awarded, UK-based Filipino Candy Gourlay|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/111447/identity-crisis-spawns-2-books-by-awarded-uk-based-filipino-candy-gourlay|accessdate=26 September 2014|newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|date=21 September 2014}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Davao City]], Philippines | birth_date = | nationality = British, Filipino | occupation = Journalist, writer | period = 2010–present (fiction) | genre = Children's Books, Fiction, Middle Grade, Teen Novels, Young Adult | subject = <!-- Filipino something? --> | notableworks = ''Tall Story'' (2010), ''Shine'' (2013) | awards = {{awards|Crystal Kite Prize for Europe|2014}} {{awards|National Children's Book Award of the Philippines|2012}}{{awards|Crystal Kite Prize for Europe|2011}}
| spouse = Richard Gourlay<ref name="Candy Gourlay" /> | children = 3<ref name="Candy Gourlay" /> | alma_mater = [[Ateneo de Manila University]], 1984<br />[[Saint Theresa's College of Quezon City]], 1980 |website = {{URL|http://candygourlay.com}} }}
'''Candy Gourlay''' (née Quimpo) is a Filipino journalist and author based in the United Kingdom whose [[debut novel]] ''Tall Story'' (2010) was shortlisted for the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.candygourlay.com/2019/03/bone-talk-has-been-shortlisted-for.html|title=Bone Talk has been shortlisted for the Carnegie 2019|access-date=2019-06-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/19/carnegie-medal-shortlist-celebrates-novels-in-free-verse|title=Carnegie medal shortlist celebrates novels in free verse|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=2019-03-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-06-24|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
==Biography== Gourlay was born and raised in the Philippines.
==Career==
=== Journalist === From 1984 to 1989, she worked as a journalist in the Philippines, notably as a staff writer and later associate editor of the weekly opposition tabloid ''[[Mr & Ms Special Edition]]'', which played a significant role in the overthrow of the 21 year regime of Filipino dictator [[Ferdinand Marcos]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About Candy Gourlay |url=http://www.candygourlay.com/p/about.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Story of Us |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20091219-242929/The-Story-of-Us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122042727/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20091219-242929/The-Story-of-Us |archive-date=22 January 2015 |access-date=1 March 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Her other positions include: *1984, staff writer, ''[[Mr & Ms Special Edition]]'' (Manila) *1985, associate editor, ''Mr & Ms Special Edition'' (Manila) *1986, desk editor, ''[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]'' (Manila) *1987, correspondent, ''Asia Magazine'' (Manila) *1989, staff writer, ''Marketing Magazine'' (London) *1990, London correspondent, [[Inter Press Service]] (London)<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview: Candy Gourlay |url=http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/scbwi-bologna-2008-author-interview.html |access-date=1 March 2014 |archive-date=5 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305144837/http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/scbwi-bologna-2008-author-interview.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *2005, presenter and writer, ''Motherless Nation'', BBC Radio 4 documentary on the social impact of Philippine migration
=== Author === Her [[debut novel]] ''Tall Story'' (2010) won the National Children's Book Award of the Philippines in 2012 and the [[Crystal Kite Award]] for the British Isles in 2011. ''Tall Story'' was shortlisted for 13 prizes, notably: the [[Waterstones Children's Book Prize]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrripleysenchantedbooks.com/2011/01/waterstones-childrens-book-prize-2011.html|title=Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011|date=11 January 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/10/waterstones-children-s-book-prize|title=Tribute to 'totally funky grandma' wins Waterstone's children's book prize|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=10 February 2011 |last1=Pauli |first1=Michelle }}</ref> the [[Branford Boase Award]], the [[Blue Peter Book Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/2/2011|title=Blue Peter Book Award 2011|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-date=10 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710131720/http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/2/2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the UKLA Children's Book Prize.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukla.org/news/shortlists_announced_today_for_the_2011_ukla_childrens_book_award_-sponsore/|title=Shortlists announced today for the 2011 UKLA Children's Book Award|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-date=23 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223111653/https://ukla.org/news/shortlists_announced_today_for_the_2011_ukla_childrens_book_award_-sponsore/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was nominated for the [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_nom_car_2011.html|title=The CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominations for 2011|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622131548/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/pressdesk/press.php?release=pres_nom_car_2011.html|archive-date=22 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her second novel ''Shine'' (2013) was longlisted for the [[Guardian Children's Fiction Prize]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/04/judges-praise-diverse-shortlist-guardian-childrens-fiction-prize-2014|title=Judges praise diverse shortlist for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize 2014|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=4 October 2014 |last1=Flood |first1=Alison }}</ref> and won the Crystal Kite Award for the British Isles in 2014.
''Bone Talk'' (2018) was shortlisted for the [[Costa Book Awards|Costa Book Award]] and the [[Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals|CILIP]] [[Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video|Carnegie Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/carnegie-title.php?titleid=4|title=The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards|website=www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk|access-date=2019-06-24}}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
==Published books== * ''Hinabing Gunita (Woven Memories): Filipinos in the United Kingdom'' (London: [[Filipinos in the United Kingdom#Culture and community|Centre for Filipinos]], 2004)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_23_wed_04.shtml |title=Chronicling the lives of Filipino women in Britain |work=Woman's Hour |publisher=BBC Radio4}}</ref> * ''Animal Tricksters'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 2010) – {{OCLC|495598126}}. * ''Tall Story'' (Oxford: [[David Fickling Books]], 2010) * ''Shine'' (David Fickling, 2013) * ''Bone Talk'' (David Fickling, 2018) * ''Wild Song'' (David Fickling, 2023)
==References== {{reflist |30em}} {{full citation needed|date=October 2014}}
==External links== * [http://mirrorswindowsdoors.org/wp/interview-candy-gourlay/ Interview] with Mirrors Windows Doors, August 2014 * [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/18/shine-candy-gourlay-review Review of ''Shine''] by [[Philip Ardagh]], January 2014 * {{LCAuth|n2010029732|Candy Gourlay|1|ue}} * [https://www.candygourlay.com/ Candy Gourlay's website] March 2022
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