Pauline Clarke

Writer, Author

1921 – 2013

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Who was Pauline Clarke?

Pauline Clarke was an English author who has written for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and more recently for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair. Her best-known work is The Twelve and the Genii, a low fantasy children's novel published by Faber in 1961, for which she won the 1962 Carnegie Medal and the 1968 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

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Born
May 19, 1921
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Education
  • Somerville College, Oxford
Died
Jul 23, 2013

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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