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Penelope Lively

British novelist · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1933 · age 93

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books.

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1987Booker PrizeAward1985Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1973Carnegie MedalAward1933Born17 March 1933

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Booker Prize1987
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1985
Carnegie Medal1973
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Honorary doctor of the Tufts University
Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Warwick

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Born 1933 · age 93

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