What prize was won for a book by a British author and illustrator from Dartmoor, focusing on futuristic steampunk London?
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Mortal Engines Mortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world running out of resources. The book has won a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Award.
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Philip Reeve Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. He currently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Sam.
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Delia Jarrett-Macauley Delia Jarrett-Macauley, DMS, Ph.D., FRSA, also known as Dee Jarrett-Macauley, is a London-based British writer, academic and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage. Her debut novel, "Moses, Citizen & Me", won the 2006 Orwell Prize for political writing, the first novel to have been awarded the prize. She has devised and presented features on BBC Radio, as well as being a participant in a range of programmes. As a multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature and cultural politics, she has taught at Leeds University, Birkbeck College and other educational establishments, most recently as a fellow in English at the University of Warwick. She is also a business and arts consultant, specialising in organisation development.
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Paint Your Dragon Paint Your Dragon is a humorous novel by Tom Holt first published in the UK in 1996 by Orbit and in paper back a year later by St. Martin's Press. It was also made available in electronic format by Hachette Digital in 2009. This was the author's twelfth humorous book and his eighteenth overall. It has been republished as part of Tom Holt's "Omnibus No'7: Saints and Sinners". Inspired by the legend of St. George and the Dragon, the book tells the story of a sculptor, Bianca Wilson, who creates statues of St. George and the Dragon. These statues come to life and carry on their battle where they left off. The story is intertwined with other minor plots that supplement the main theme and ultimately aid it to its conclusion.
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Philippa Pearce Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel "Tom's Midnight Garden", which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times.
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Poppy Cat Poppy Cat is a series of books created by British illustrator and writer Lara Jones. The books are published by Campbell Books (a division of Macmillan Publishers), and include "Poppy Cat's Play House", "Poppy Cat's Christmas", "Poppy Cat Loves Rainbows", "Poppy Cat's Dream", and "Poppy Cat's Sparkly Night". The books have been published in many countries and have sold in excess of two million copies.
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Glynn Boyd Harte Glynn Boyd Harte (28 April 1948 – 16 December 2003) was a British artist, illustrator, and author.
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Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the United Kingdom's only literary award for comic literature. Established in 2000 and named in honour of P. G. Wodehouse, past winners include Paul Torday in 2007 with "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and Marina Lewycka with "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" 2005 and Jasper Fforde for "The Well of Lost Plots" in 2004. Gary Shteyngart was the first American winner in 2011.
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Robert Gillmor Robert Gillmor (born Reading, Berkshire, 1936) is an ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor, from England. He is a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and has been its secretary, chairman and president. He has contributed to over 100 books, and in 2001 was a recipient of the RSPB Medal.
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Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.
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Ronald Wright Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, United Kingdom) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction. His nonfiction includes the bestseller "Stolen Continents", winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the "Independent" and the "Sunday Times". His first novel, "A Scientific Romance", won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the "Globe and Mail", the "Sunday Times", and the "New York Times".
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David Elliot (illustrator) David Elliot is a New Zealand illustrator, known internationally for his contributions to the "Redwall" fantasy series by British author, Brian Jacques.
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The City &amp; the City The City & the City is a novel by British author China Miéville, combining weird fiction with the police procedural; it was written as a gift for Miéville's terminally ill mother, who was a fan of the latter genre. The novel was published by Macmillan on 15 May 2009. In the US it was published by Del Rey Books on 26 May 2009. Also in 2009, a signed, limited edition of 500 numbered and 26 lettered copies was published in the US by Subterranean Press. It has won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Arthur C. Clarke Award, World Fantasy Award, BSFA Award and Kitschies Red Tentacle; tied with Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" for the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and been nominated for a Nebula Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Jay Griffiths Jay Griffiths (born in Manchester) is an award-winning British writer and author of "Wild: An Elemental Journey", "Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time", "Anarchipelago", "A Love Letter from a Stray Moon", "Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape" and "Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression".
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Hawthornden Prize The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender. It is funded by a trust established by her. Authors under the age of 41 are awarded on the quality of their "imaginative literature" which can be written in either poetry or prose. The Hawthornden Committee awards the Prize annually for a work published in the previous twelve months. There have been several gap years without a recipient (1984–87, 1971–73, 1966, 1959, 1945–57).
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Hawksmoor (novel) Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches. "Hawksmoor" has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism.
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Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
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Hugo Pepper Hugo Pepper is a children's book written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell, published in 2006. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
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Edward Ardizzone Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'CBE RA', '4': "} (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979) was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For "Tim All Alone" (Oxford, 1956), which he wrote and illustrated, Ardizzone won the inaugural Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal in 2005, the book was named one of the top ten winning titles, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for public election of an all-time favourite.
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Dartmoor Dartmoor is an area of moorland in southern Devon, England. Protected by National Park status as Dartmoor National Park, it covers 954 km2 .
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A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ("née" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, "The Times" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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Charles Keeping Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society.