Wendy Boase
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1944 – 1999
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Who was Wendy Boase?
Wendy Boase born in Melbourne, Australia, she was one of the co-founders of the children's publishing company Walker Books. She held the position of editorial director of Walker Books until her death in 1999 from cancer. After her death Julia Eccleshare and Anne Marley decided to create an annual award named the Branford Boase Award in commemoration of both Wendy Boase and her colleague Henrietta Branford who also died of cancer the same year. Wendy Boase helped Henrietta Branford to write the novel Fire, Bed, and Bone which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
The name Boase is of Cornish origin.
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