Patricia Wrightson

Patricia Wrightson (actually Alice Patricia Furlonger ) ( born June 21, 1921 in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, † 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer. It is one of the most successful in English-speaking children and youth book authors. The Patricia Wrightson Award for Children's Literature is named after her.

Life

Patricia Wrightson was born the third of six children of a Solicitors. She attended St Catherine 's College in Stanthorpe (Queensland ). During the Second World War she worked in a munitions factory in Sydney, from 1946 to 1960 in the hospital of Bonaldo, Kyogle Council and from 1960 to 1964 in the Sydney District Nursing Association. The mid-1960s, she joined the School Magazine, a literary magazine for children. This activity she finished in 1970.

In 1943, she married and had two children. The marriage was divorced in 1953.

Work (selection)

  • The crooked serpent (1955 )
  • The Feathered Star (1962 )
  • I own the racecourse (1968 )
  • Wirrun between ice and fire ( 1977)
  • Wirrun and the Singing Water ( 1978)
  • Wirrun under the Wind (1981 )
  • Outside in the night (1985 )
  • Magooya, in the shadows of Time ( 1996)

Honors

For her life's work was in 1986 with the International Youth Book Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, awarded

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