Pauline Clarke

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Anne Pauline Clarke (born May 19, 1921 , Kirkby-in-Ashfield , Nottinghamshire , England, † July 23, 2013 in Bottisham , Cambridgeshire ) was a British journalist and children's book author.

Life

Pauline Clarke was born in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1921. She attended schools in London and Colchester . Until 1943 she studied English at Somerville College , Oxford . She later worked as a journalist for children's magazines, among others. She became known through the children's book The Twelve from the Attic ( English The Twelve and the Genii ) and decided to become a freelance writer. When the German Youth Book Prize was awarded on June 26, 1968 in Hamburg, Die Zwölf vom Dachboden received the prize for the best children's book. In 1969 she married Peter Hunter Blair , a historian, and lived with him in Cambridge . In 1984, after his death in 1982, she helped to publish one of his works and in 1999 wrote her first adult novel, The Nelson Boy , in which she carefully tried to sketch out Horatio Nelson's childhood . This volume was followed by another on his early travels.

Awards

Works

In German translation
  • The twelve from the attic . (Original title: The twelve and the genii ) German translation by Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt u. Maria Torris. Illustrations: Cecil Leslie. Dressler, Berlin 1967.
  • The world's favorite predators . (Original title: The Robin Hooders ) German translation by Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt u. Maria Torris. Illustrations: Cecil Leslie. Dressler, Berlin 1971.
  • Three children and the stranger . (Original title: The two faces of Silenus ) German translation by Annemarie Honerkamp u. Maria Torris. Illustrations: Cecil Leslie. Dressler, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-7915-0313-8
as Helen Clare
  • Five Dolls in a House (1953)
  • Five Dolls and the Monkey (1956)
  • Five Dolls in the Snow (1957)
  • Five Dolls and Their Friends (1959)
  • Five Dolls and the Duke (1963)
  • Merlin's Magic (1953)
  • Bel the Giant and Other Stories, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum (1956) (republished as The Cat and the Fiddle and Other Stories ), illustrated by Ida Pellei (1968)
  • Seven White Pebbles , illustrated by Cynthia Abbott, (1960)
as Pauline Clarke
  • The Pekingese Princess (1948)
  • The Great Can (1952)
  • The White Elephant (1952)
  • Smith's Hoard (1955) also published as Hidden Gold (1957) and as The Golden Collar (1967)
  • Sandy the Sailor (1956)
  • The Boy with the Erpingham Hood (1956)
  • James the Policeman (1957)
  • James and the Robbers (1959)
  • Torolv the Fatherless (1959)
  • The Lord of the Castle (1960)
  • The Robin Hooders (1960)
  • Keep the Pot Boiling (1961)
  • James and the Smugglers (1961)
  • Silver Bells and Cockle Shells (1962)
  • The Twelve and the Genii (1962) also published as The Return of the Twelves (1964)
  • James and the Black Van (1963)
  • Crowds of Creatures (1964)
  • The Bonfire Party (1966)
  • The Two Faces of Silenus (1972)
as Pauline Hunter Blair
  • Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, Variorum by Peter Hunter Blair (Ed. With Michael Lapidge) (1984)
  • The Nelson Boy: An Imaginative Reconstruction of a Great Man's Childhood (1999)
  • A Thorough Seaman: The Ships' Logs of Horatio Nelson's Early Voyages Imaginatively Explored (2000)
  • Warscape (2002)
  • Jacob's Ladder (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Pauline Clarke
personal data
SURNAME Clarke, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clarke, Anne Pauline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and children's author
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkby-in-Ashfield , Nottinghamshire , England
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2013
Place of death Bottisham , Cambridgeshire