Author anne fine biography summary
Author anne fine biography!
Author anne fine biography summary
The LetterPress Project
An Interview with Anne Fine
The Letterpress Project has asked authors and illustrators to think about what has inspired them as artists, what their favourite books are and how they relate to their audience - we've also asked them if they themselves are book collectors.
The British Council provides this background to Anne's work and career:
Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children.
Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature, the Carnegie Medal. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award.
Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch, a silverNestle prize for Ivan the Terrible, and many other regional and foreign awards.
In 1990 and again in 1993 she was voted Publishing New