birth_place awards nationality birth_date genre image article_title education name occupation alma_mater
england , uk waterstones children 's book prize 2014 british 7 december 1981 young-adult novels file : holly smale.jpg holly smale
 english literature holly smale writer university of bristol
holly smale

holly smale -lrb- born 7 december 1981 -rrb- is a british writer .
her first published book , `` geek girl '' , won the 2014 waterstones children 's book prize and was shortlisted for the roald dahl funny prize 2013 .
smale is writing a 6-book teen fiction series , also called geek girl .
books four and five of the series are due to be published by harpercollins in 2015 .
