Kenneth Oppel was born on 31 August 1967 in Port Alberni, British Columbia and grew up in Victoria, B.C. and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He earned a B.A. in cinema studies and English from the University of Toronto and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Books by Kenneth Oppel

	1985 Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure (children)
	1990 The Live-Forever Machine (young adult)
	1990 Cosimo Cat (picture book)
	1992 Dead Water Zone (young adult)
	1992 Follow That Star (picture book)
	1993 Galactic Snapshots (children)
	1993 Cosmic Snapshots (children)
	1994 A Bad Case of Ghosts (children)
	1994 A Strange Case of Magic (children)
	1994 A Crazy Case of Robots (children)
	1994 An Incredible Case of Dinosaurs (children)
	1995 Emma's Emu (children)
	1996 A Weird Case of Super-Goo (children)
	1997 Silverwing (young adult)
	1999 Sunwing (young adult)
	2000 The Devil's Cure (adult novel)
	2000 Peg and the Whale (picture book)
	2002 A Creepy Case of Vampires (children)
	2002 Firewing (young adult)
	2004 Airborn (young adult)
	2004 Peg and the Yeti (picture book)
	2005 Skybreaker (young adult)
	2007 Darkwing (young adult)
	2008 Starclimber (young adult)
	2009 The King's Taster (children)
	2010 Half Brother (young adult)
	2011 This Dark Endeavor (young adult) The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
	2012 Such Wicked Intent (young adult)
	2014 The Boundless (children)
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Awards

• Blue Spruce Award
  • 2010 – The King's Taster – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award: Children's Literature
  • 2004 – Airborn – Winner
  • 2011 – This Dark Endeavour – Shortlisted

• Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award
  • 2000 – Silverwing – Winner
  • 2001 – Sunwing – Shortlisted
  • 2004 – Firewing – Shortlisted

• Red Maple Award
  • 2000 – Sunwing – Shortlisted
  • 2003 – Firewing – Shortlisted
  • 2005 – Airborn – Winner
  • 2006 – Skybreaker – Winner
  • 2008 – Darkwing – Shortlisted
  • 2010 – Starclimber – Shortlisted
  • 2012 – Half Brother – Winner
  • 2013 – This Dark Endeavour – Shortlisted
  • 2014 – Such Wicked Intent – Shortlisted
  • 2015 – The Boundless – Shortlisted

• Silver Birch Award
  • 1998 – Silverwing – Winner

• Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
  • 2006 Winner

• White Pine Award
  • 2002 – Dead Water Zone – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site

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Added 17 March 2006.
Updated 26 April 2015.