Anne fine biography
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Books By Anne Fine - Author
Former Children’s Laureate Anne Fine has written over seventy books for children and won many prizes and accolades, including twice winning the Carnegie Medal. She began to write after the birth of her first child, when she was unable to get to the library to change her books in a snowstorm, and she hasn’t stopped since. Her writing very often tackles serious social issues (Anne studied Politics and History at university) but can also be laugh-out-loud funny and her range is demonstrated by the successes of Madam Doubtfire and Goggle Eyes.
Anne has often been described as ‘outspoken’ but in On The Wall she explores how we can all benefit from a little peace and quiet: something she learned to treasure as a child, growing up in a small house with four siblings.
Anne Fine was our Guest Editor in July 2011
Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for
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Anne Fine
About Author
Originally from Leicester, Anne Fine read Politics and History at Warwick University before training to be a teacher. She has also worked as an Information Officer for the charity Oxfam, and has two grown-up daughters.
Anne Fine's work is characterised by humour and her extraordinary insights into the lives and minds of children. She went to school aged three, and can't remember a time when she couldn't read. As a young person, Anne moved on from Enid Blyton to Anthony Buckeridge, Richmal Crompton (the William books) and Henry Treece. Then it was P G Woodhouse and Rider Haggard. Now Anne reads George Eliot, Flaubert, Austen, Thackeray and Tolstoy, as well as biography, autobiography, psychology, crime, poetry - and the newspapers.
Anne has received many children's book prizes, including the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year (The Tulip Touch), Carnegie Medal (Goggle Eyes, Flour Babies)and the Guardian Children's Award (Madam Doubtfire). She was the Ch
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Anne Fine
British children's and adult writer (born 1947)
Anne FineOBE FRSL (born 7 December 1947) is an English writer. Although best known for children's books, she also writes for adults. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she was appointed an OBE in 2003.[2]
Fine has written more than seventy children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up.[3][a] For some of those five books she also won the Guardian Prize, one Smarties Prize, two Whitbread Awards, and she was twice the Children's Author of the Year.
For her contribution as a children's writer, Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998.[4][5] From 2001 to 2003, she was the second Children's Laureate in the UK.[6]
Early life
[edit]Fine was born and raised in Leicester and educated in neighbouring midland counties of England. She attended Northampton Hi