Aidan Chambers

1934 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: children's literature

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

native language: English

languages spoken, written or signed: English

occupation: playwright, writer, children's writer

award received: Zilveren Griffel, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Carnegie Medal, Michael L. Printz Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Eleanor Farjeon Award

official website: www.aidanchambers.co.uk

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). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002. Source: Wikipedia (en)