Biography
Kristi Piiper (1983) is an author of children’s and young adult literature. She earned an International Baccalaureate Diploma in Berlin and currently studies nursing at the Tartu Healthcare College.
Piiper has published five children’s books and a three-part young adult series. Her characters are highly active and independent young persons for whom no problem is insurmountable, especially when they work together. Young people’s mental health issues is also an occurring theme in her writing.
Profile picture: private collection
2023
Good Young Adult Book (The First Time)
2022
Youth Novel Competition, 1st place (The First Time)
2020
Nominee of Tartu Prize for Children’s Literature (Childhood Prize) (The Lovesick Basement Monster, the Vegan Blood Sausage, and Other Stories)
2019
Children’s Story Competition “My First Book”, 2nd place (The Countryside Inheritance)
Good Young Adult Book (The First Time)
2022
Youth Novel Competition, 1st place (The First Time)
2020
Nominee of Tartu Prize for Children’s Literature (Childhood Prize) (The Lovesick Basement Monster, the Vegan Blood Sausage, and Other Stories)
2019
Children’s Story Competition “My First Book”, 2nd place (The Countryside Inheritance)