Peter Dickinson
English author & poet (1927–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
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Born | Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson (1927-12-16)16 December 1927 Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia |
Died | 16 December 2015(2015-12-16) (aged 88) Winchester, Hampshire, England |
Occupation | Writer, poet |
Nationality | British |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Period | 1968–2015 |
Genre | Crime fiction, children's novels and picture books |
Notable works | |
Notable awards | Horn Book Award 1977 Guardian Prize 1977 Carnegie Medal 1979, 1980 Phoenix Award 2001, 2008 |
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Children | 4, including Philippa Dickinson and John Dickinson[1] |
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Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both Tulku (1979) and City of Gold (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.[2][3] Through 2020 he is one of eight writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up[lower-alpha 1] for Eva (1988) and four times a commended runner-up.[4][lower-alpha 2]
For his contributions as a children's writer Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000.[5][6]