Gillian Avery

Novelist, Author

1926 –

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Who is Gillian Avery?

Gillian Avery is a British children's novelist and historian of childhood education and children's literature. She and A Likely Lad won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. It was adapted for television in 1990.

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Born
Sep 30, 1926
Reigate
Also known as
  • Gillian Elise Avery
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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