Candy Gourlay is a Filipino author based in London.
She cut her teeth as a writer working for the opposition press during the Marcos dictatorship in Philippines in the 1980s. She moved to London in 1989, where she began to write for children.
Her debut novel Tall Story won the Crystal Kite Prize for Europe and the National Book Award in the Philippines. Tall Story was also selected as one of the 50 best books celebrating cultural diversity in the United Kingdom.
Her second book Shine was listed for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. A picture book is due to be published in 2018.