Aidan Chambers (born 27 December, 1934 near Chester-le-Street, County Durham) is an author of children's and young adults' fiction. His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels: Breaktime, Dance on My Grave, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, Postcards from No Man's Land and This is All - The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn.
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Honours
Postcards from No Man's Land was awarded the 1999 Carnegie Medal. In 2002 he was given the Hans Christian Andersen Award in recognition of his distinguished body of writing.[1] He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Umeå in 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the School Library Association.
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Further reading
- Greenaway, Betty. Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer. The Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8108-5087-3.
