James Watson

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1936 –

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Who is James Watson?

James Arnold Watson is an English writer. The best known of his twelve children's novels is Talking in Whispers—winner of The Other Award from the Children's Rights Workshop, runner-up for the 1984 Carnegie Medal, and, in its German translation, winner of the 1987 Buxtehude Bulle award. Two others are Ticket to Prague and The Bull Leapers. He has been a lecturer in media and communication studies and he has written three books in the field: "What is Communication Studies?" "Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process" and, with co-author Anne Hill, "The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies", now in its 8th edition.

Watson was born in Darwen, Lancashire, England.

His book The Noisy Ducks of Buxtehude is a dual-language text aimed at very young readers.

A 1989 profile in the U.K. children's books magazine Books for Keeps noted that a theme of Watson's work was "a universal fight for human rights", and that three of his novels, "adventure thrillers set amid the Spanish Civil War, the Chile of the ‘disappeared’, and a contemporary Britain where the Establishment closes ranks over nuclear secrecy" had been praised "for their exciting action, their passion and their challenge to debate." The Carnegie Medal panel described Talking in Whispers as covering "the difficult theme of oppression in Chile, as seen through the eyes of three teenagers, with great honesty and sincerity."

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Born
Nov 8, 1936
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  • United Kingdom

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on July 23, 2013

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