Alice Kuipers

Alice Kuipers
Alice Kuipers in 2013
Born	1979 London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British & Canadian
Alma mater	Manchester University
Period	2007–present
Genre	Young adult, children's
Notable works	Life on the Refrigerator Door, 40 Things I Want To Tell You, The Worst Thing She Ever Did (Lost For Words in the U.S.), The Death of Us
Partner	Yann Martel (2002–present)
Website
www.alicekuipers.com

Alice Kuipers (born 1979) is a British-born author living in Saskatchewan, Canada who is best known for her young adult novels. Life on the Refrigerator Door won the Grand Prix de Viarmes, the Livrentête Prize, the Redbridge Teenage Book Award in 2008 and the Saskatchewan First Book Award in 2007, was narrated as an audio book by Amanda Seyfried and Dana Delany, and has been adapted for theater in England, France and Japan. 40 Things I Want To Tell You won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013. The Worst Thing She Ever Did (Lost For Words in the U.S.) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book in 2011.

Alice Kuipers was born the first of three children in London, England and is of Dutch and English descent. She attended the Westminster School in London, before receiving a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Manchester University. She later graduated with Distinction with a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her mother is Head of the Department of Psychology at King's College in London, England and a Professor of Clinical Psychology. Her father works as an advisor to local and central government on criminal and civil justice systems, and was previously a Chair of Governors and troubleshooting at OFSTED.

At eighteen, Kuipers traveled alone for a year with an itinerary that included the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Cambodia, Australia, Vietnam and the U.S., which she has stated has had a significant influence on her work. In an interview with Chatelaine magazine, Kuipers said, "I could spend my whole life exploring it [the world] and never come close to seeing everything there is to see... I learned not to worry too much if I took a wrong step. Something would come of whichever route I chose."

She moved to Saskatchewan, Canada and settled there in 2003. Alice lives in Saskatoon, with her partner, the writer Yann Martel, and their four young children.

Alice Kuipers’ debut young adult novel in 2007, Life on the Refrigerator Door, sold in twenty-eight countries and was the winner of the Saskatchewan First Book Award, the Sheffield Libraries Choice Award and the Grand Prix de Viarmes. It was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal. The audio version of the novel was narrated by Amanda Seyfried and Dana Delany in 2007. It was adapted for theater and staged in London, England in 2014 and in Paris, France in 2016.Life on the Refrigerator Door is told through a series of notes and post-its written from a mother to her fifteen-year-old daughter before and during a family crisis.