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Erin Entrada Kelly

Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer of children's literature. She was awarded the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children for her third novel ''Hello, Universe.'' She won the award a second time in 2025 for her novel ''The First State of Being.''

Kelly also received a 2021 Newbery Honor for ''We Dream of Space'', the Award for Children's Literature from the Asian Pacific Librarians Association for her second novel ''The Land of Forgotten Girls,'' and a Sibert Honor for ''At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom,'' her first work of nonfiction. She is one of only five authors who have won two Newbery Medals and a Newbery Honor. Kelly also received the prestigous Deutscher Jugendliter Preis (German Youth Literature Prize) for ''Vier Wünsche ans Universum,'' the German edition of ''Hello, Universe.'' Provided by Wikipedia