Tim Wynne-Jones

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Tim Wynne-Jones , OC (born August 12, 1948 in Bromborough, Cheshire , Great Britain ) is a Canadian author of children's and youth literature , including picture books and novels for children and young people, novels for adults, radio plays, and a children's musical and opera libretto. For his works as a children's book author, he was Canada's 2012 candidate for the international Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 2012.

Life

Wynne-Jones was born in Great Britain in 1948 and emigrated to Canada in 1952 . Wynne-Jones grew up in British Columbia and Ontario . He currently lives in Perth, Ontario. Wynne-Jones studied at the University of Waterloo and Yale University after graduating from Ridgemont High School in Ottawa , Ontario, Canada. Another formative experience was his participation in the choir of the Anglican Church of the St. Matthew Anglican Church, of which he was temporarily choirmaster. He is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches the MFA program Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Write

Tim Wynne-Jones' first book was Odd's End (Eng. The Uninvited Third ), which he is said to have written in just five weeks. It was published by McClelland & Stewart in 1980 and received the Seal First Novel Award for $ 50,000 Canadian dollars. Since then, Wynne-Jones has authored more than 20 books, including picture books, novels for children and young adults, and three novels for adults. His work has received numerous reviews and has won several awards, including two The Horn Book Magazine's Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for children's books published in the United States (1995, 2011); Three Canadian Library Association Awards in 1993, 1995, and 2009; the Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada (2001); and the "Edgar Award for Young Adult Mystery" from the "Mystery Writers of America" ​​(2002). In Germany a click was made! nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize 2010; Wynne-Jones was one of the ten authors of this book for young people. Eight of his books have been translated into German.

Picture books for children

  • Madeline and Ermadillo - 1976
  • Zoom at Sea - 1983
  • Zoom Away - 1985
  • The Hour of the Frog - 1985
  • I'll Make You Small - 1986
  • Mischief City - 1986
  • Architect of the Moon - 1988 (US title: Builder of the Moon )
  • Zoom Upstream - 1992
  • The Last Piece of Sky - 1993
  • Mouse In the Manger - 1993
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1996
  • Dracula - 1997
  • On Tumbledown Hill - 1998
  • Ned Mouse Breaks Away - 2002

Novels for children and teenagers

  • Some of the Kinder Planets - 1993
  • Rosie Backstage - 1994 (with Amanda Lewis)
  • The Book of Changes - 1994
  • The Maestro - 1995 (Australian title: The Flight of Burl Crow , UK title The Survival Game )
  • Stephen Fair - 1998
  • Lord of the Fries and Other Stories - 1999
  • The Boy in the Burning House - 2000 ( Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel, 2002)
  • A Midwinter Night's Dream - 2003 (Libretto, commissioned by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus)
  • A Thief in the House of Memory - 2004
  • Rex Zero and the End of the World - 2007
  • Rex Zero, King of Nothing - 2008
  • The Uninvited - 2009
  • Rex Zero, the Great Pretender - 2010
  • Blink and Caution - 2011
  • The Emperor of Any Place - 2015
  • The Ruinous Sweep - 2018
  • The Starlight Claim - 2019

Novels for adults

  • Odd's End - 1980
  • The Knot - 1983
  • Fastyngange - 1988 (UK Title: Voices )
  • SilabGarza - 2010

Together with other authors

  • Click - 2007

Radio plays

  • "The Thinking Room" for CBC Radio - 1982
  • "The Road Ends at the Sea" for CBC Radio - 1982
  • "The Strange Odyssey of Lennis Freed" for CBC Radio - 1983

German translations

Awards

  • 1980 - Seal First Novel Award, Odd's End
  • 1983 - Ruth Schwartz Award from The Canadian Book Sellers Association, Zoom at Sea
  • 1993 - Governor General's Award for children's literature , Some of the Kinder Planets
  • 1995 - Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction, Some of the Kinder Planets
  • 1995 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature, The Maestro
  • 1995 - Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year, The Maestro
  • 1997 - Vicky Metcalf Award
  • 1998 - Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year
  • 2001 - Arthur Ellis Award , Best Juvenile Crime Book, The Boy in the Burning House
  • 2002 - Edgar Award for Best Young Adult book, The Boy in the Burning House
  • 2009 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature, The Uninvited
  • 2010 - Click! nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize, together with nine other authors and illustrators
  • 2011 - Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian literature, notably as a writer of children's fiction".
  • 2011 - Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction, Blink & Caution
  • 2012 - nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize

literature

  • Bopp, Lena, ice skating in the most beautiful sunshine (about the picture book Kater Carter drives to the North Pole), FAZ.net v. November 7, 2011
  • Chevalier, Tracy (ed.), Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, third edition, St. James Press, Chicago, 1989
  • Gertridge, Allison, Meet Canadian Authors & Illustrators , Scholastic Professional Books, Toronto, 2002
  • Günther, Sebastian, Hit on the head by Plato (about: Thief in the House of Remembrance), FAZ v. September 1, 2007, p. 34
  • Jakobeit, Brigitte, The Shadow. The genius and the boy in Canada's wilderness (about: Escape into the woods), in: Die ZEIT No. 42 BC. October 14, 1999
  • Jenkinson, Dave, Emergency Librarian, Volume 15, number 3, “Portraits”, Tim Wynne-Jones, 1988
  • Nilsen, Alleen Pace, Donelson, Kenneth L. (Eds.) Literature for Today's Young Adults, Sixth Edition, Longman, New York, 2001
  • Stahlberg, Jürgen, When the grand piano flew over the Canadian woods (about: Escape into the woods), in: FAZ v. November 30, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Wynne-Jones . WorldCat . Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Marsh, Nora: author profile Tim Wynne-Jones . Canadian content. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Dates and Gigs" . Tim Wynne Jones (timwynne-jones.com). Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  4. ^ "An Autobiographical Sketch" Tim Wynne-Jones. Retrieved December 9, 2018. "An autobiographical sketch that appears in Something About the Author , Volume 136, published by the Gale Group".
  5. ↑ Tim Wynne-Jones . Vermont College of Fine Arts. Archived from the original on December 5, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  6. ↑ Tim Wynne-Jones . Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved December 12, 2018. Archived copy. Retrieved December 10, 2018. "This archived Web page remains online for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes."
  7. ↑ Tim Wynne-Jones . Macmillan Books. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ And the winners were ... . The Crime Writers of Canada. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  9. ^ Search the Edgar Award Winners And Nominees . Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ Nominations for the youth book award .
  11. ^ Appointments to the Order of Canada .
  12. ^ "Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present" . The Horn Book. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  13. ↑ Börsenblatt, Hans Christian Andersen Prize 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Wynne-Jones, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromborough, Cheshire , United Kingdom