Juliet Marillier (born in 1948) is a New Zealand-born writer of fantasy, focusing predominantly on historical fantasy. She received the World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement in 2025. She has been nominated for 26 Aurealis Awards with 5 wins. Additionally she has won four Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
Biography
Marillier was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in languages and a Bachelor of Music (honours).
[ She taught music at the high school and university levels and has been a choral conductor and opera singer.]
Marillier lives in the Swan Valley, Western Australia (2014).[ She belongs to the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.]
Marillier is on the Literary Advisory Committee for the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre and is a contributor to the fiction writing blog, Writer Unboxed.
Awards
Bibliography
The Sevenwaters Series
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Daughter of the Forest (1999)
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Son of the Shadows (2000)
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Child of the Prophecy (2001)
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Heir to Sevenwaters (2008)
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Seer of Sevenwaters (2010)
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Flame of Sevenwaters (2012)
Saga of the Light Isles
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Wolfskin (2002)
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Foxmask (2003)
The Bridei Chronicles
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The Dark Mirror (2004)
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Blade of Fortriu (2005)
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The Well of Shades (2006)
The Whistling Tor series
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Heart's Blood (2009)
Novels for young adults
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Wildwood Dancing (2006)
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Cybele's Secret (2007)
The Shadowfell series
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Shadowfell (2012)
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Raven Flight (2013)
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The Caller (2014)
Blackthorn and Grim
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Dreamer's Pool (2014)
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Tower of Thorns (2015)
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Den of Wolves (October, 2016)
Warrior Bards
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The Harp of Kings (September, 2019)
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A Dance with Fate (September, 2020)
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A Song of Flight (September, 2021)
Short story collections
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Prickle Moon (2013), 16 stories.
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Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness (2021), 4 stories.
Short stories
Short stories in Prickle Moon.
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"Prickle Moon"
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"Otherling"
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"Let down your hair"
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"Poppy seeds"
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"In Coed Celyddon"
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"Juggling silver"
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"'Twixt Firelight and Water (A Tale of Sevenwaters)"
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"Gift of hope"
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"Letters from Robert"
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"Jack's day"
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"Far horizons"
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"Tough Love 3001"
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"Wraith, level one"
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"Back and beyond"
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"The angel of death"
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"By bone-light"
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"Beautiful"
Dates shown are for first Australian publication.
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