Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian Children’s Author. She has over 25 books published with Scholastic Books Australia, National Library of Australia, Penguin Random House Australia, Larrikin House, Wombat Books, EK Books, New Frontier and Windy Hollow Books.
Her book, Sorry Day won the 2018 Speech Pathology Awards Book of the Year for Language and Literacy Development Indigenous Children and the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year - Eve Pownall Award. Coral also won the Caleb Book of the Year Award in 2021 for Grandma’s Treasured Shoes and has also been shortlisted for the REAL AWARDS (CROC, KOALA and YABBA Awards) voted by the children of Australia, as well as the Environmental Awards for Children’s Literature in 2023/24, the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023/24 and the Speech Pathology Awards 2023.
Coral loves to visit schools, often running writing workshops and inspiring young people with a love for literature. She is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.
With a background in Media, Coral has always had a passion for telling stories and inspiring children with a love for literature. She dabbled in script writing, radio drama and video production, before working a decade in marketing and publications.
Born in Sydney Australia, Coral spent her early years in Bangladesh. She has also lived in Queensland, Japan and currently resides by the beach in Melbourne, Victoria with her husband and four children.
Her signature writing style has a splash of rhythm, a dash of rhyme and is stirred with fun! As well as children's books, Coral loves dark chocolate, good coffee, the theatre and the beach.
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