Patricia Wrightson

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Patricia Wrightson (actually Alice Patricia Furlonger ) (born June 21, 1921 in Lismore , New South Wales , Australia, † March 15, 2010 ) was an Australian writer. She is one of the most successful authors of books for children and young people in the English-speaking world. The Patricia Wrightson Award for Children's Literature is named after her.

Life

Patricia Wrightson was born the third of six children to a solicitor . She attended St Catherine's College in Stanthorpe ( Queensland ). During the Second World War she worked first in a munitions factory in Sydney, from 1946 to 1960 in the Bonaldo Hospital, Kyogle Council and from 1960 to 1964 in the Sydney District Nursing Association . In the mid-1960s, she started working for School Magazine , a children's literary magazine. She ended this activity in 1970.

In 1943 she married and had two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 1953.

Work (selection)

  • The crooked snake (1955)
  • The Feathered Star (1962)
  • I own the racetrack (1968)
  • Wirrun between ice and fire (1977)
  • Wirrun and the Singing Water (1978)
  • Tangled Under the Wind (1981)
  • Out at Night (1985)
  • Magooya, in the shadows of time (1996)

Honors

In 1986 she was awarded the International Children's Book Prize , the Hans Christian Andersen Medal , for her complete works.

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  1. ↑ See obituary in: Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 , ed. by Sascha Mamczak , Sebastian Pirling and Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich 2011, p. 265. ISBN 978-3-453-53379-0
  2. ↑ a b c d Obituary in The Guardian, May 9, 2010
  3. ^ Obituary in The Times, April 23, 2010
  4. ↑ a b Information ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. via Patricia Wrightson at USM @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lib.usm.edu
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SURNAME Wrightson, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian author for children and young people
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Lismore (New South Wales)
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2010