Leigh Bardugo

by Franca, Julia and Magdalena

Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalén, on April 6, 1975, and grew up in Los Ángeles. She studied in the University of Yale, graduating in 1997.

Her debut novel was Shadow and Bone, published in 2012, and was the opening of the Grishaverse, an universe that Leigh would continue exploring with the duology Six of Crows, published in 2015 and 2016, and the duology Nikolai, published in 2019 and 2021.

Leigh Bardugo suffers from osteonecrosis* and sometimes needs to use a walking stick, a fact that she reflects on one of the main characters from Six of Crows, who also suffers from a leg disease. 

In 2019, she won the Inkopt Award, and the same year the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Fantasy Book. 

We chose Leigh Bardugo to write about because she is an author that the three of us like, plus we think she is a great example of how, no matter what gender you write, you can identify yourself with the characters, and that gives her characters and plots an unusual depth.

Shadow and Bone

Genre: Fantasy / Adventure fiction 

Shadow and bone is the first book of "The Grisha Trilogy", a trilogy written by Leigh Bardugo. It's a fantasy adventure for teens and is the Leigh Bardugo debut novel. This was print in 2012. 

The novel is told by Alina Starkov (protagonist). She's a orphan teen, who is growing up in Praga, Rauka; when suddenly, for saving her best friend using a ppwer that she didn't know she had, she is caught by the Grisha.

Also, in september 2012, Dreamworks announced that thay had acquired the cinimatographic rights from Shadow and Bone, turning the book into a televised series produced by Netflix, launched in 2020

Six of Crows

Six of Crows is a duology written by Leigh Bardugo in 2015 and published in September of that same year by Henry Holt and co. It is genre youth adult fiction and fantastic literature. 

The story is about a group of thieves and takes place mainly in a city called Ketterda.