Aidan chambers biography of alberta

British author (born )

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Aidan Chambers (born 27 December ) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels.

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He won both the British Carnegie Medal^[1] and the American Printz Award^[2] for Postcards from No Man's Land (). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in ^[3][4]

Life and work

Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in , Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine.^[5] After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his national service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend-on-Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in Stroud, Gloucestershire in His young-adult novel Now I Know () is based partly on his experiences as a monk.

His first plays, including Johnny Salter (), The Car and The Chicken Run (), were published while he was a teacher at Archway School in Stroud.

Chambers left the monastery in and a year later became a freelance writer.

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His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels ( to ): Breaktime, Dance on My Grave, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, Postcards from No Man's Land and This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn. He and his wife, Nancy, founded Thimble Press and the magazine Signal to promote literature for children and young adults.

They were awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books in From to he was President of the School Library Association.

Awards and honours

Chambers won two major annual book awards for Postcards from No Man's Land, published by Bodley Head in , one being the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.^[1] The other was the Michael L.

Printz Award for specifically young-adult literature, recognising the first US edition published three years later.^[2][a]

He has also received several general awards and honours.

• Children's Literature Association Award for Literary Criticism
• Eleanor Farjeon Award for Outstanding Services to Children's Books (shared with wife Nancy)
• Hans Christian Andersen Award in recognition of his distinguished body of writing.^[3]
• Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Umeå
• Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Gloucestershire
• Elected Fellow Royal Society of Literature
• National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) Award for Lifetime Services to English Education
• Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Oxford Brookes University

Books

Novels for young adults

Novels for children

• Seal Secret ()
• The Present Takers ().

Chambers has also compiled and edited many other children's books, several concerning ghosts.

Ghosts Four was edited as Malcolm Blacklin.

Short stories

• The Kissing Game: Short Stories of Defiance and Flash Fictions ()^[6]

Criticism and education

• The Reluctant Reader ()
• Introducing Books to Children (, )
• Booktalk: occasional writing on literature and children ()
• The Reading Environment ()
• Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk ()
• Reading Talk ()
• Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk with The Reading Environment ()^[7]
• The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction Fincham Press ()

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

• Greenaway, Betty.
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  Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer. The Scarecrow Press, , ISBN&#;

• Nancy Chambers (ed) Reading the Novels of Aidan Chambers. Thimble Press, , ISBN&#;

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