Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and
short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice
been shortlisted for the Booker Prize- once in 1977 for her first
novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to
Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed
novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement
Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On, which was
shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award;
City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat Wave; Beyond the Blue
Mountains, a collection of short stories; Oleander, Jacaranda, a
memoir of her childhood days in Egypt; Spiderweb; her
autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It
Up; Consequences; and Family Album, which was shortlisted for the
2009 Costa Novel Award.
She has also written radio and television scripts and has acted as
presenter for a BBC Radio 4 programme on children's literature. She
is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie
Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was appointed CBE in the 2001
New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012.
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