Joanne Harris - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

Harris' books are now published in over fifty countries and have won a number of UK and international awards, including:

• Chocolat: Creative Freedom Award (2000); Whittaker Gold Award (2001). Shortlisted: Whitbread Novel of the Year Award (2000), Scripter Award (2001); film version nominated for 8 BAFTAs and 5 Oscars. Whittaker Platinum Award(2012).
• Blackberry Wine: 2000 Winner of both the Foreign and International categories of the Salon du Livre Gourmand (France).
• Five Quarters of the Orange: Shortlisted: 2002 RNA Novel of the Year; Author of the Year 2002; WHSmith Award 2002 (UK).
• The French Kitchen: (a cookbook with Fran Warde): 2005 Winner of the Golden Ladle for Best Recipe Book (softcover) in the World Food Media Awards.
• Gentlemen & Players: Shortlisted for the Edgar Award, 2007 (USA) and the Grand Prix du Polar de Cognac (France).
• Flavours of Childhood: (a piece co-written for the Radio 4 series First Taste with poet Sean o'Brien) Winner of the Glenfiddich Award, 2006.

In 2004, she was a judge for the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa), and in 2005, was a judge for the Orange Prize. She is the holder of honorary doctorates in literature from the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sheffield, and is an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She is a patron of the charities Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and Plan UK, and has traveled to Togo and to the Congo to report on their work. An account of her visit to the Congo was published in Writing on the Edge, a collection of essays by noted literary figures, with photographs by Tom Craig, in 2010. She has also donated short stories to a number of charity anthologies, notably Piggybank Kids and Breast Cancer UK.

She works from a shed in her back garden and is active on Twitter, where she is known as @joannechocolat, and which she uses, along with her website's message board, to answer questions from her fans. She is married, and lives in Yorkshire with her husband and daughter.