Patricia Wrightson (1921–2010)
Autor de The Nargun and the Stars
Sobre El Autor
Patricia Wrightson was born in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia on June 19, 1921. During World War II, she worked in a munitions factory in Sydney. She wrote 27 books during her lifetime and entwined Aboriginal mythology into her writing. Her first book was The Crooked Snake. Her books have won mostrar más many prestigious awards all over the world, including an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in 1977, the Dromkeen Medal in 1984 and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1986. She is a four-time winner of the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award: in 1956 for The Crooked Snake, in 1974 for The Nargun and the Stars, in 1978 for The Ice Is Coming and in 1984 for A Little Fear. She has also won the CBC Book of the Year, Young Reader Honour Book in 1998 for Rattler's Place: Aussie Bites. NSW Premier's Literary Award for children's literature has been named after her. She died of natural causes on March 15, 2010 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: National Library of Australia
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Obras de Patricia Wrightson
Das Haus am Fluss 2 copias
Draussen in der Nacht - bk179 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wrightson, Patricia
- Nombre legal
- Wrightson, Alice Patricia
- Otros nombres
- Furlonger, Alice Patricia (birth name)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1921-06-19
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2010-03-15
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bonalbo, New South Wales, Australia - Educación
- St Catherine's College, Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia
- Ocupaciones
- children's book author
hospital administrator - Organizaciones
- School Magazine (Editor)
- Premios y honores
- Dromkeen Medal (1984)
Hans Christian Andersen Medal (1986)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1985)
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1977)
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- Obras
- 30
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 1,114
- Popularidad
- #23,059
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 136
- Idiomas
- 10
- Favorito
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