Jill Paton Walsh
Novelist and children's writer from England · United Kingdom · Writers · Lived 1937 to 2020 · aged 83
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Something wrong?Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
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2020Died18 October 20201998Phoenix AwardAward1995Nestlé Children's Book PrizeAward1984Nestlé Children's Book PrizeAward1937Born29 April 1937
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Jill MurphyBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Philip RidleyBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Chris RiddellBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
Lauren ChildBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
David AlmondBoth received Nestlé Children's Book Prize
John AgardBoth received Nestlé Children's Book PrizeAbout this person
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1937 to 2020 · aged 83
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