Her prolific output includes books for all ages, from very young children to adults, but she is most well-known for her novels aimed at the 8-12 year age range. Her website is Anne Fine was the Children’s Laureate from 2001 to 2003. Anne has two grown up daughters, and lives in County Durham. In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. Her most recent novel for adults is Battle of Wills (2016).Īnne Fine’s work has been translated into forty five languages. The Killjoy (1986) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and both Taking the Devil’s Advice (1990) and Telling Liddy (1998) have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Having written over fifty books for children of all ages, Anne Fine became Children’s Laureate in 2001 and during her two years of office set up the Home Library (free downloadable modern bookplates from and published three classic anthologies of poetry for different age groups, called A Shame to Miss 1, 2 & 3.Īnne Fine has also published eight highly acclaimed novels for adults, including In Cold Domain (1994), All Bones and Lies (2001) and Raking the Ashes (2005).

Adaptations of Bill’s New Frock and Goggle-Eyes have been screened by the BBC and her novel Madame Doubtfire (1987) was adapted for film under the title Mrs Doubtfire. In 1998, she was the UK nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1990 and again in 1993 she was voted Publishing News’ Children’s Author of the Year.

Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock (1989), a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch (1996), a silver Nestle prize for Ivan the Terrible (2007), and many other regional and foreign awards. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies (1992), which also won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award. Her novel Goggle-Eyes (1989) won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature, the Carnegie Medal. Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children.

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