Penelope Lively
British novelist
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is an English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
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Born | Penelope Margaret Low 17 March 1933 Cairo, Egypt |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Citizenship | British |
Period | 1970–present |
Genre | Novels, children's fiction (notably contemporary fantasy) |
Notable awards | Carnegie Medal 1973 Booker Prize 1987 |
Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.[1]
References
change- ↑ "Friends of the British Library Annual Report 2006/07" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 April 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
Other websites
change- Audio slideshow interview Archived 2009-11-12 at the Wayback Machine about Family Album on The Interview Online