Peter Dickinson
Novelist, Author
1927 –
Who is Peter Dickinson?
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL is a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both Tulku and City of Gold, each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Through 2012 he is one of seven writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three. He was also a highly commended runner-up for Eva and four times a commended runner-up.
For his contributions as a children's writer Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1927
Livingstone - Also known as
- Peter Malcolm De Brissac Dickinson
- Spouses
- Robin McKinley
(1992 - )
- Robin McKinley
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Eton College
- King's College, Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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