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- Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999).
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Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal [1] and the American Printz Award [2] for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999).
The official website of author Aidan Chambers. His books include the novels Dance on my Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land, Breaktime, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, This is All, Dying to Know You, children's novels The Present Takers and Seal Secret, books for teachers, student and librarians Tell Me, The Reading Environment, Booktalk, Reading ...
Aidan Chambers is often acclaimed by critics as one of the most remarkable Young Adult writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, though the six novels in his ‘Dance Sequence’ are marketed at (and enjoyed by) teenagers, they also have an adult audience.
- Bodley Head, Thimble Press
Aidan Chambers is the first British author to have won the award for fiction since Eleanor Farjeon in 1956. In 2005 Aidan was longlisted for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the second largest international literary prize in the world.
Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award.
Aidan Chambers is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
Aidan Chambers (born 27 December 1934) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999).
