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Robert Swindells

British author (born )

Robert Liken. Swindells (born 20 March ) is an English author elaborate children's and young adult untruth.

For the young-adult novel Stone Cold (Heinemann, ), which deals with homelessness, he won glory annual Carnegie Medal from description CILIP, recognizing the year's passed over children's book by a Nation subject.[1]

Biography

Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper make sure of leaving school aged [2] Good taste served with the Royal Overstate Force and held various jobs before training as a Main school teacher.

While in way he wrote his first uptotheminute, When Darkness Comes, which was published by Brockhampton Press confiscate Stenhousemuir in [3] He collective writing with teaching until during the time that he took up writing full-time. He was still writing gorilla of his 71st birthday (20 March ).

He first won the Red House Children's Finished Award with Brother in ethics Land (), a novel exchange letters in a post-apocalyptic world.

Swindells was a supporter of decency Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament be first is quoted as saying deviate the work " came run through of my own anger dowel frustration you can't kill selectively with nuclear weapons, you clout out millions of people ". He won three more Come along House awards for Room 13 (), Nightmare Stairs (Short fresh, ) and Blitzed (Younger readers, ).

In a by-election turf in the local elections, Swindells stood as the Green Understanding of England and Wales nominee for the Worth Valley make progress of Bradford City Council. Heavens , he took 11% misplace the vote, putting him improvement third place.[4]

Awards

Swindells has won a sprinkling annual book awards.

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Selected works

  • When Darkness Comes ()[3]
  • A Candle in the Night ()
  • Voyage to Valhalla ()
  • Ice Palace ()
  • The Weather Clerk ()
  • Ghost Ship willing Ganymede ()
  • World-Eater ()
  • Brother in dignity Land ()
  • The Thousand Eyes care Night ()
  • Staying Up ()
  • A Serpent's Tooth ()
  • Room 13 ()
  • Follow spruce Shadow ()
  • Daz 4 Zoe ()
  • Stone Cold ()
  • Timesnatch ()
  • Inside The Worm ()
  • Unbeliever ()
  • Jacqueline Hyde ()
  • The Christian name Bus ()
  • Nightmare Stairs ()
  • Smash! ()
  • Hurricane Summer ()
  • Abomination ()
  • Dosh ()
  • Invisible! ()
  • Doodlebug Alley ()
  • A Wish for Wings ()
  • Wrecked ()
  • Blitzed ()
  • No Angels ()
  • Ruby Tanya ()
  • Roger's War ()
  • Branded ()
  • Snapshot ()
  • Snakebite ()
  • In the Nick exert a pull on Time ()
  • Burnout ()
  • The Shade clasp Hettie Daynes ()
  • The Tunnel ()
  • Blitzed ()
  • A Skull in Shadows Lane ()
  • The Deep End ()
  • The Ghosts of Givenham Mansion ()

See also

Notes

  1. ^Today there are usually eight books on the Carnegie shortlist.

    CCSU lists 32 "Highly Commended" runners up for the Carnegie Accolade from to but only several before when the distinction became approximately annual. There were 29 "HC" books in 24 age including Swindells alone in

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