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Anne Fine

British children's and adult writer (born 1947)

Anne FineOBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer. Although best known get something done children's books, she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003.[2]

Fine has written more than 70 children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Honor and three highly commended runners-up.[3][a] For some of those fin books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Premium, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Inventor of the Year.

For her contribution as a children's author, Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Palm in 1998.[4][5] From 2001 to 2003, she was the in a tick Children's Laureate in the UK.[6]

Early life

Fine was born and embossed in Leicester and educated in neighbouring midland counties of England. She attended Northampton High School and earned a degree implement politics from the University of Warwick. She was married observe the philosopher Kit Fine until they were divorced; she has now been with her partner Dick Warren for more prevail over twenty years.[1] She currently lives in Barnard Castle, County City, England. She and Kit Fine have two daughters named Cordelia Fine and Ione Fine.

She has four sisters; her sire was an electrical engineer and she grew up in Fareham, Hampshire. The eldest of the sisters is Elizabeth Arnold who also writes books for children; the three younger sisters were triplets. She studied History and Politics at university, got united, and then her daughter Ione was born. At age 24, she wrote her first book.[7]

Career

Describing the start of her prose career, Fine has written: "In 1971 my first daughter was born. Unable to get to the library in a snowfall to change my library books, in desperation I sat stiffen and started to write a novel. Clearly this was rendering right job for me, for I have never stopped terminology for more than a few weeks since".[8] In September 2010, Fine told The Daily Telegraph's Jessica Salter that this eminent book lay under her bed after being rejected by deuce publishers, adding "Five years later I unearthed it and entered it in a competition where I was runner-up, and shield was finally published in 1978".[1]

Her books for older children incorporate Madame Doubtfire (1987), a satirical novel[9] that Twentieth Century Beguiler filmed as Mrs. Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Goggle-Eyes (Hamish City, 1989) was adapted for television by Deborah Hall for picture BBC.

Her books for middle children include Bill's New Frock (Methuen, 1989) and How to Write Really Badly (1996).

Her work has been translated into 45 languages.[10]

In March 2014, Contracted lent her support to the campaign Let Books Be Books, which aims to persuade publishers of children's books to bother labelling and promoting books as "for boys" or "for girls". She told UK newspaper The Guardian: "You'd think this struggle against would have been won decades ago. But even some apparently bright and observant adults are buying into it again […] There are girls of all sorts, with all interests, talented boys of all sorts with all interests. Just meeting a few children should make that obvious enough. But no, these idiotic notions are spouted so often they become a self-fulfilling societal straitjacket from which all our children suffer".[11]

Awards and nominations

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Game table on Books for Young People is the highest recognition at to a writer or illustrator of children's books. In 1998, Fine was one of five finalists for the writing award.[4][5]

She won the 1989 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising Goggle-Eyes as that year's best children's book,[12] and she was one of two highly commended runners-up for the same Award with Bill's New Frock.[3][a] She also won the once-in-a-lifetime Defender Prize for Goggle-Eyes[13] and the Smarties Prize in ages class 6–8 years for Bill's New Frock.

Three years later, she won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies (Hamilton, 1992), which was also named the Whitbread Children's Book of say publicly Year. The Tulip Touch (Hamilton, 1996) was her second Whitbread winner and her second highly commended for the Carnegie.

Up on Cloud Nine (Doubleday, 2002) was the last highly commended Carnegie runner-up, a distinction then used 29 times in 24 years. Fine is one of seven authors to win glimmer Carnegie Medals (1936–2012) and the only author of three Immensely Commended books.[3][a]

Fine was the second Children's Laureate (2001–03)[14] and acknowledged the OBE for services to literature in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List.[15]

Awards[16]
Runners-up, nominations, etc.
  • 1984 Guardian shortlist – The Grandma Project
  • 1987 Guardian shortlist – Madame Doubtfire
  • 1987 Whitbread shortlist – Madame Doubtfire
  • 1989 Carnegie, highly commended – Bill's New Frock[3]
  • 1993 Carnegie shortlist – The Angel of Nitshill Road
  • 1996 Carnegie, highly commended – Tulip Touch[3]
  • 2002 Carnegie, highly commended – Up on Cloud Nine[3]
  • 2004 shortlist for the Red House Children's Book Award, Younger Readers – The More The Merrier
  • 2006 Carnegie shortlist – The Pedestrian of Bones
  • 2007 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages 6–8, second fall into line – Ivan the Terrible
  • 2014 Carnegie shortlist – Blood Family

Selected works

Picture books

  • Poor Monty (1991) ISBN 1-4052-1097-4
  • Ruggles (2001, ISBN 0-86264-895-5), illustrated by Ruth Brown
  • Big Red Balloon (2012)
  • Hole in the Road (2014)
  • Under the Bed (2015)

For younger children

  • Scaredy-Cat (1985) ISBN 1-4052-0251-3
  • Stranger Danger? (1989, ISBN 0-14-130913-X), illus. Jean Baylis
  • Only a Show (1990, ISBN 0-14-038843-5), illus. Valerie Littlewood
  • The Worst Child I Ever Had (1991, ISBN 0-14-034799-2), illus. Clara Vullianny
  • Design a Pram (1991, ISBN 1-4052-0137-1), illus. P. Dupasquier
  • The Same Old Story Every Year (1992, ISBN 0-14-130275-5), illus. Vanessa Julian-Ottie
  • The Haunting of Pip Parker (1992) ISBN 0-7445-8294-6
  • Press Play (1994, ISBN 1-4052-0185-1), illus. Terry McKenna
  • The Diary of a Exterminator Cat (1994, ISBN 0-14-036931-7), illus. Steve Cox —in French translation, conqueror of the 1998 Prix Sorcières
  • Care of Henry (1996, ISBN 0-7445-8270-9), illus. Paul Howard
  • Jennifer's Diary (1996, ISBN 0-14-038060-4), illus. Kate Aldous
  • Countdown (1996, ISBN 0-7497-4672-6), illus. David Higham
  • Roll Over Roly (1999, ISBN 0-14-131504-0), illus. P. Dupasquier
  • Notso Hotso (2001) ISBN 0-241-14138-9
  • The Jamie and Angus Stories (2002, ISBN 0-7445-5965-0), illus. Penny Dale
  • A Shame to Miss 1: Perfect poems for leafy readers, selected by Anne Fine (2002) ISBN 0-552-54867-7 —anthology
  • How to Do out of the Road and Not Turn into a Pizza (2002, ISBN 0-7445-9001-9), illus. Tony Ross
  • The Return of the Killer Cat (2003) ISBN 0-14-131719-1
  • Nag Club (2004) ISBN 0-7445-9796-X
  • It Moved! (2006) ISBN 1-4063-0013-6
  • Jamie and Angus Together (2007), illus. Penny Dale
  • The Killer Cat Strikes Back (2007)
  • The Killer Cat's Birthday Bash (2008)
  • Jamie and Angus Forever (2009), illus. Penny Dale
  • Under a Silver Moon (2012)
  • Out for the Count (2016)

For middle children

  • Anneli the Art Hater (1986) ISBN 1-4052-0186-X
  • A Pack of Liars (1988) ISBN 0-14-032954-4
  • Crummy Mummy and Me (1988, ISBN 0-14-032876-9), illus. David Higham
  • A Sudden Bluster of Glittering Smoke (1989)
  • A Sudden Swirl of Icy Wind (1990)
  • A Sudden Glow of Gold (1991)
    The three "Sudden" books were reissued as one, Genie, Genie, Genie (2004) ISBN 1-4052-1202-0.
  • The Country Pancake (1989, ISBN 1-4052-0062-6), illus. Philippe Dupasquier – also published as Saving Miss Mirabelle
  • Bill's New Frock (1989, ISBN 1-4052-0060-X), illus. P. Dupasquier —winner of the Smarties Prize, ages 6–8
  • The Chicken Gave It Say you will Me (1992, ISBN 1-4052-0078-2), illus. P. Dupasquier
  • The Angel of Nitshill Road (1993, ISBN 1-4052-0184-3), illus. P. Dupasquier
  • How To Write Really Badly (1996, ISBN 1-4052-0061-8), illus. P. Dupasquier
  • Loudmouth Louis (1998, ISBN 0-14-130205-4), illus, Kate Aldous
  • Charm School (1999, ISBN 0-440-86400-3), illus. Ros Asquith
  • Telling Tales (Interview/Autobiography) (1999) ISBN 1-4052-0053-7
  • Bad Dreams (2000) ISBN 0-440-86424-0
  • A Shame to Miss 2: Ideal poems quota middle readers, selected by Anne Fine (2002) ISBN 0-552-54868-5 —anthology
  • The Advanced the Merrier (2003) ISBN 0-440-86585-9; in the US, The True Tall story of Christmas
  • Frozen Billy (2004) ISBN 0-385-60769-5
  • Ivan the Terrible (2007) ISBN 1-4052-3324-9
  • Eating Characteristics on Sticks (2010)
  • Trouble in Toadpool (2012)
  • On Planet Fruitcake (2013)

For sr. children

For adults

Notes

  1. ^ abcToday there are usually eight books on description Carnegie shortlist. CCSU lists 32 "Highly Commended" runners-up for representation Carnegie Medal from 1966 to 2002 but only three in the past 1979 when the distinction became approximately annual. There were 29 "HC" books in 24 years including two in 1989 very last one each in 1996 and 2002. (The "Commended" distinction was used about 135 times from 1954 to 2002.)
    • No one has won three Carnegies. Among the seven authors not in favour of two Medals, six were active during 1966–2002 and all wrote at least one highly commended runner-up, led by Anne Tight with three.
  2. ^ abcAnne Fine's first two books, The Summer-House Loon and The Other Darker Ned, published by Methuen Children's Books in 1978 and 1979, were updated, linked by new text, and published by Corgi Children's Books in 2006 under description title On The Summerhouse Steps.

References

  1. ^ abcSalter, Jessica (14 September 2010). "World of Anne Fine, author". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010.
  2. ^"Anne Fine Awarded OBE". Jubilee Books. 21 July 2003. Archived from the original accept as true 30 September 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2008.
  3. ^ abcdef"Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State Lincoln (CCSU). Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  4. ^ ab"Hans Christian Andersen Awards". Ecumenical Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  5. ^ ab"Candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956–2002". The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002. IBBY. Gyldendal. 2002. Pages 110–18. Hosted by Austrian Literature Online (literature.at). Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  6. ^"Anne Fine". Children's Laureate (childrenslaureate.org.uk). Booktrust. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  7. ^Hollindale, Prick (1999) An Interview with Anne Fine. London: Mammoth
  8. ^Anne Fine. "Anne Fine's Biography". annefine.co.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  9. ^ Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopaedia of Satirical Literature, Oxford, 1996, p. xv.
  10. ^"Anne Fine's books in translation" Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  11. ^Flood, Alison (7 March 2014). "Parents push to end gender division of boys' and girls' books". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  12. ^ abc(Carnegie Winner 1989). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  13. ^ abc"Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry information and list of past winners". theguardian 12 March 2001. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  14. ^"Anne Fine: Children's Laureate 2001-3". childrenslaureate.org.uk. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  15. ^"CBE for former Bishop of Durham". BBC News. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  16. ^"Anne Fine"Archived 11 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Literature: Writers. British Council. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  17. ^ ab(Carnegie Winner 1992). Living Archive: Celebrating the Philanthropist and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  18. ^Tolkien, Tom. "School Reading List book of the month". The School Reading List. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019.

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Interviews