Trudi CanavanTrudi Canavan is a bestselling Australian writer of fantasy novels. While establishing her writing career, she worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, and is best known for her bestselling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age f the Five. The third book in her The Traitor Spy trilogy, The Traitor Queen, reached #1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list in 2011, while The Magician’s Apprentice, the prequel to The Black Magician trilogy, won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009. Subsequently, Canavan has created a new fantasy adventure series called Millennium's Rule, with Thief's Magic a joint Ditmar winner for Best Novel of 2015 and the first three books reaching bestseller status. Trudi Canavan lives in Melbourne, Australia. Read More Read Less