[1] For Jellicoe Road she won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best book for young adults.
[4] She enrolled in a business school which helped her gain employment with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and later at a travel agency.
[5][6] Dubbed "the most stolen library book",[7] the novel has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and was followed by her film adaptation of the same title released in 1999, Looking for Alibrandi.
While writing the AFI award-winning screenplay Marchetta taught English, Italian and History full-time for ten years at a city high school for boys.
[9] In the USA Finnikin has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly,[10] School Library Journal,[11] Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
[25] In December 2019 Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises and Wild Sheep Content announced an 8-part TV series.
Marchetta will write the pilot with writers Samantha Strauss, Sarah Walker and Angela Betzien also attached.