Anne Fine

Author

British writer, best known for children's books although she also writes for adults

1947 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom
language of expression: English
educated at: Northampton High School, University of Warwick
occupation: writer, novelist, children's writer, screenwriter, author, poet
award received: Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Carnegie Medal, Nestlé Children's Book Prize, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Children's Laureate, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
www.annefine.co.uk

Anne Fine, OBE, FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer. Although best known for 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.Fine has written more than seventy children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up. For some of those five books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Prize, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Author of the Year. For her contribution as a children's writer, Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998. From 2001 to 2003, she was the second Children's Laureate in the UK.
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