Tim Wynne-Jones has written thirty-one books including three adult novels, many picture books, three short story anthologies and eight young adult novels. He has twice won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for children’s literature: for Some of the Kinder Planets, and The Maestro, and is presently short-listed for The Uninvited. Planets won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the first Canadian title to ever win this prestigious award. He is also a Horn Book honoree for Rex Zero and the End of the World, which came out in 2007. His work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Spanish and Catalan. His novel, The Boy in the Burning House, won the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America, the Arthur Ellis Award of the Crime Writers of Canada, and was short-listed for the Guardian Award in Great Britain. The Maestro, retitled The Survival Game in the UK was short-listed for the Guardian Prize, as well. He has won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award, three times. His latest novel, Rex Zero, The Great Pretender came out in Canada this fall and will be out in the USA in the spring of 2010. This is the third book in the Rex Zero series, set in Ottawa in the early sixties.

Tim has also written a dozen radio plays for CBC, for one of which, St Anthony’s Man, he won an ACTRA award. He has written the book and libretto for an opera, A Midwinter Night’s Dream, composed by Harry Somers. The opera premiered at the International Milk Festival at Harbourfront in Toronto in 1988. It has been remounted several times, most recently at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto in 2003. A CD was released of A Midwinter Night’s Dream, in 2006. He has also written the book and lyrics for the musical, Mischief City, with composer John Roby, which premiered at YPT in Toronto in 1990. It was remounted at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, this past spring.

Among his lyric-writing credits are a bunch of songs with blues phenom, J W-Jones, due out on his new album. He has also written sixteen songs for the Jim Henson/CBC television program, Fraggle Rock, written with composer, Phil Balsam.
Tim has taught in the MFA – Writing for Children program at Vermont College for the past seven years. He also teaches through the correspondence program at Humber College. He has taught extensively in Canada, especially at the Banff Centre.