Aidan Chambers
British children's writer (1934-2025) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 90
Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
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2025Died11 May 20252009Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2003Honorary doctorate of Umeå UniversityAwardMichael L. Printz AwardAward2002Hans Christian Andersen AwardAward1999Carnegie MedalAward1994Zilveren GriffelAward1982Eleanor Farjeon AwardAward1934Born27 December 1934
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United Kingdom
Category
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Type
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Status
Deceased
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Lived 1934 to 2025 · aged 90
