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Peter Dickinson
OBE FRSL
Born
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson (1927-12-16)16 December 1927 Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia
Died
16 December 2015(2015-12-16) (aged 88) Winchester, Hampshire, England
Occupation
Writer, poet
Nationality
British
Education
Eton College
Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge
Period
1968–2015
Genre
Crime fiction, children's novels and picture books
Notable works
Tulku
The Flight of Dragons
City of Gold
Eva
Notable awards
Horn Book Award 1977 Guardian Prize 1977 Carnegie Medal 1979, 1980 Phoenix Award 2001, 2008
Spouse
Mary Rose Barnard (1953–88)
Robin McKinley (1991–2015)
Children
4, including Philippa Dickinson and John Dickinson[1]
Website
www.peterdickinson.com
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an 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 (1979) and City of Gold (1980), each being recognised as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.[2][3] Through 2020 he is one of eight writers to win two Carnegies; no one has won three.
He was also a highly commended runner-up[a]
for Eva (1988) and four times a commended runner-up.[4][b]
For his contributions as a children's writer Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000.[5][6]
^Eccleshare, Julia (17 December 2015). "Peter Dickinson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
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