# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-westall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:50.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-westall"
name: "Robert Westall"
slug: "robert-westall"
description: "Robert Atkinson Westall was an English author and teacher known for fiction aimed at children and young people. Some of the latter cover complex, dark, and adult themes. He has been called \"the dean of British war novelists\". His first book, The Machine Gunners, won the 1975 Carnegie Medal for the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. It was named among the top ten Medal-winners at the 70th anniversary celebration in 2007. Westall also won a second Carnegie, a Smarties Prize, and the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize."
tagline: "English writer (1929–1993)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-10-07"
deathDate: "1993-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.287605294825511
  historical:           8.567101333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://robertwestall.com/index.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump