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Today (Wednesday 17 th June 2020), the winners of the prestigious CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people, are revealed.
McGowan, Anthony. "West Hampstead author Anthony McGowan on The Art of Failing". Hampstead Highgate Express . Retrieved 27 June 2019. I’ve said before how I’d long dreamed of winning the Carnegie medal. And with that bizarre optimism of youth, I kinda thought I would. As I’ve said, I’ve published 40 something books now, most for young people, and for each of the first few I wrote a little Carnegie acceptance speech in my head. Gracious and simple to begin with, but as each one entirely failed to even be nominated, they became increasingly baroque. One took the form of an interpretive dance. Another was a country and western song; another a ballad opera in the style of Bertolt Brecht. The stage is set for a social commentary saga, but that is not what McGowan has in mind. Lark is about the relationship between two brothers, and that’s it. With relatable stories that show children a range of perspectives and lived experiences, the 2020 Medal winners reflect the Awards’ mission ‘to celebrate and represent a diverse range of experiences’.A Q&A with Anthony McGowan: Killing Father Christmas". MinervaReads. 20 December 2017 . Retrieved 27 June 2019. The nature-loving brothers trip to the county’s wild and desolate moorland starts out well enough. But suddenly things go very wrong, and their relationship is put to a severe test.
Tan said: "I am surprised, delighted and then deeply honoured - what a wonderful thing to be! I am especially thrilled to receive the Kate Greenaway Medal in the fine company of so many brilliant artists and authors, many of whom inspired my own love of illustrated stories as a young west Australian scribbler.Doing It With Someone Else: Collaborative Writing in YA Fiction". Liz Flanagan . Retrieved 23 June 2019. Crace, John (1 November 2019). "Another hung parliament unable to solve Brexit? Top banter | John Crace". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 January 2020. YLG has 12 regional committees covering all of the UK and each committee advertises and democratically recruits a YLG judge to represent them on the panel of judges. Each judge serves a two-year term and each year the panel is a unique mix of new and experienced judges led by the Chair of Judges. Following the independent diversity review of the Awards, CILIP introduced a co-opting procedure so that if this recruitment process does not result in a sufficiently diverse and representative judging panel, up to two judges will be co-opted to join the panel. The full list of past winners of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals can be found here and here. In 2011, it was announced that McGowan had been contracted to write four books that would revive the classic children's wildlife adventure series penned between 1949 and 1980 by the late Willard Price. [25] The books were published between 2012 and 2014.
But now that I find I have, miraculously, won this wonderful prize, there is one job I can’t ignore. The thanking. One of the great things about the Carnegie over the past decade is the way it has embraced, as we all must, diversity. It’s vital that young people can see versions of themselves in books – characters who look and sound like them.
During challenging times, librarians believe books for children and young people are more important than ever. The best books provide adventure, solace, inspiration, comfort, escape, rich experiences and sheer enjoyment; they are a port in a storm, a reflective mirror and an entry to new worlds. In an unprecedented year for all of us, we are delighted to reveal the two extraordinary winners of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals that highlight our connection and co-dependency with the natural world.”
McGowan … freights every word with truth and feeling … Few other writers for the young better understand the pull of the gang and the fear of the bully” The Times This is the first book we’ve read by this author, although I now understand there are others involving the same characters which we’d definitely be interested in. So I’d also like to thank all the brilliant team at Barrington Stoke, my fantastic publisher. There’s Ailsa Bathgate, my great editor. She’s worked on two of my books now, one shortlisted for the Carnegie and one that’s won it – given that I’d failed 40 times before she took charge of me, you can see who’s really responsible! Tales from the Inner City is a strange book for strange times, suggesting that human frailty might well find expression in dreams of tigers, bears, frogs and lungfish reclaiming our cities. To know that I am not alone in enjoying such speculation - maybe even a bit too much - is no small thing. It is profoundly consoling, to feel part of a larger conversation about our relationship to this planet, particularly with younger readers, in whose imagination the future is already taking shape."
As a journalist, McGowan has written on sport, travel and culture. [31] [32] [33] He has lectured on creative writing at London Metropolitan University, Royal Holloway University of London, and The Faber Academy. [34] Personal life [ edit ] Lampie written and illustratedby Annet Schaap and translated by Laura Watkinson (Pushkin Children’s Books)
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