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Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist.

Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in London. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, and Oxford University in 2014.

She started writing for publication in 2009. In 2014, her debut novel The Girl Of Ink and Stars aka The Cartographer's Daughter was bought as part of a six-figure, two-book deal by Knopf Random House (US), and Chicken House Scholastic (rest-of-world). It was published in May 2016 in the UK, where it won the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year. The US release was in November 2016. It has sold to over twenty-five territories around the world, and is a perennial bestseller in the UK.