Name Sylvia Waugh Role Writer | ||
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Awards Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Nominations Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Books The Mennyms, Earthborn, Mennyms in the wilderness, Mennyms Alone, Mennyms alive | ||
Education Gateshead Grammar School | ||
"Earthborn" by Sylvia Waugh
Sylvia Waugh (born 1935) is a British writer of children's books.
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Biography
Sylvia Waugh was born in Gateshead, County Durham, Northern England in 1935. She attended Gateshead Grammar School. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh began her writing career in her late fifties. Her first book, The Mennyms, was published by Julia McRae in 1993. She won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers and made the Carnegie Medal shortlist. She continued "the Mennyms" as a series of five books (1993 to 1996) that have appeared in seventeen languages. The Ormingat books received very good critical reviews and have been published in Japanese (all three books) and Spanish (Space Race).
Works
The Mennyms
Ormingat trilogy
Awards
Beside winning the Guardian Prize and making the Carnegie Medal shortlist, The Mennyms (book one) was recognised in other ways: