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Robert Swindells
British author (born 1939)
Robert E. Swindells (born 20 March 1939) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction.
For the young-adult novel Stone Cold (Heinemann, 1993), which deals with homelessness, he won the annual Carnegie Medal from the CILIP, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.[1]
Biography
Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15.[2] He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a Primary school teacher.
Kallt som i graven robert swindells biography
While in training he wrote his first novel, When Darkness Comes, which was published by Brockhampton Press of Stenhousemuir in 1973.[3] He combined writing with teaching until 1980 when he took up writing full-time.
He was still writing as of his 71st birthday (20 March 2010).
He first won the Red House Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land (1984), a novel set in a post-a